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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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8pOb TIL that in 2008 Upper Deck released a “baseball” card of Abraham Lincoln that included an actual strand of Abe’s hair.
mRjv TIL The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus was a hoax designed by the U of Conn. to test 7th graders ability to decipher fake news on the internet presented as real. They all failed. Some even maintained it was real even after confronted with the hoax, a phenomenon called belief perseverance.
8MDV TIL the pilots of the Looking Glass (the always-airborne doomsday command center) were originally required to wear an eye patch to protect one eye from blindness in the event of a surprise nuclear strike.
YpwL7 TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote and illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his kids every year from 1920 to 1943
n7VG TIL that Roy Sullivan, a park ranger, was struck by lightning seven times in his career, but ended up shooting himself at age 71