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TIL Pill bugs are actually crustaceans, not insects

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ymy8 TIL Ecstasy is illegal in all countries in the world under a UN agreement. In Britain, the law has prohibited whole families of drugs even before they were invented and in the US, any new drug which has been designed to avoid the law is automatically prohibited
R7wkl TIL that because there are no surviving specimens of the heavily armoured Korean "turtle ship", historians still debate about what the ships actually looked like, though most now agree that they were in fact turtle-shaped
a866b TIL Freddie Mercury’s introductory scatting vocal on "Under Pressure" was improvised during an experiment suggested by David Bowie, as Brian May recalls it: "David said, 'Okay, let’s each of us go in the vocal booth and sing how we think the melody should go and we’ll compile a vocal out of that.'"
nbX9 TIL In recognition of its record of downing large numbers of Soviet-built MiG aircaft, the F-4 Phantom II was called the “World’s Leading Distributor of MiG Parts”.
p8Q58 TIL that Mount Shishaldin, an active volcano in Alaska is in the shape of a perfect cone, with perfectly circular contours above 2000m.