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TIL that the Ganzfeld Experiment is a technique used to test individuals for ESP and induce hallucinations

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ADvWg TIL Having resulted in 77 people dying in 9 years, Australia's Horses and Cows Are Deadlier Than Its Snakes and Spiders. Kangaroos killed 60 in that time, while snakes and lizards have only killed 23. Spiders haven't killed anyone since 1979
Oo9MY TIL that the only country in the world to lie in all four hemispheres is the island country of Kiribati
R5b7j TIL about Carl Tanzler, a man that developed an obsession with Elena de Hoyos, a woman 32 years his junior, and two years after she died, he dug up her corpse and kept it in his bed for 7 years.
R7XGQ TIL that shortly after his 101st birthday, Albert Hoffman, the swiss chemist known for discovering LSD, wrote a letter to Steve Jobs asking for his assistance in a study about the therapeutic uses of LSD. Jobs once famously said that taking LSD was one of the 2 or 3 most important things he'd done.
b9BME TIL Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Quran using his blood as ink. The 605 page book contains roughly 27 liters of his blood and is kept in a mosque in Iraq behind 3 vault doors.