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TIL Kurt Cobain's Daughter Married Tony Hawk's Son

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gM41X TIL that Survivorship Bias creates a false public perception that anyone can achieve great things if they have the ability and make the effort
d84X8 TIL in 1987, in Brazil, a ship carrying 22tons of weed in 3lb cans dumped all of it in the sea after being chased by Brazilian authorities. The cans were carried to the coastline by the tides, and most ended up being found (and used) by locals. This event came to be known as "The Summer of the Cans"
loB4N TIL that Mithridates VI was so paranoid of being poisoned that he slowly drank small amounts of it throughout his life in order to gain an immunity. When he was captured by the Romans, he tried to kill himself with poison but could not
9Y676 TIL Serbian is practically the only European language whose speakers are fully functionally digraphic: that is, they commonly use two different alphabets to read and write (Cyrillic and Latin)
a8e9A TIL there is a death metal band called Hatebeak. Their singer is an African grey parrot.