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TIL it would actually take 5 minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious

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a888y TIL about Cropmarks. They are archeological ruins only visible from the air. They result from more dry or fertile crops due to the soil disruption when ancient sites were built.
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