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TIL that people can get high be eating honey made from bees that live near poppy fields.

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dD7X7 TIL: Earth Overshoot Day is the date when humanity has used up all the resources that the planet can regenerate in a year. In 2024 it falls on August 1. If the world consumed like Qatari citizens, Feb. 11; US citizens, March 14; Indonesian citizens, Nov. 24!
8ekaX TIL due to its intense graphic violence, Total Recall (1990) was originally given an X-rating. Several scenes were cut to secure an R-rating including Thumbelina stabbing Helm to death with a bowie knife, Richter's dissected arm & Quaid's ambush of the scientists upon fleeing the implant apparatus.
awZJo TIL that Giant Anteaters have killed people. There have been 2 documented attacks in the wild both resulted in the death of people hunting them. The anteaters slashed at the hunters with their long claws, hitting the femoral artery, making the victims bleed to death.
R56j TIL that someone had a baby three months premature– the baby was declared stillborn. . The mother, eager to at least see the baby 12 hours after the operation– found the baby alive. . nailed in a coffin, almost frozen inside the morgue.
D4ZD TIL: 6 companies control 90 percent of what we read, watch and listen to.