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TIL that there is a snake venom that causes you to bleed from all holes of your body

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pNJp TIL a physics professor proved mathematically that vampires could not exist since if they fed once a month and each victim became a vampire, within two and a half years the entire population of the earth would be one.
oBbvK TIL German author Hermann Hesse's mother was born in India. His grandfather compiled the Malayalam language, wrote the English-Malayalam dictionary & translated the Bible from English to Malayalam. This all lead to his 1922 novel 'Siddhartha'.
Y87x TIL that Liquindi, or Pygmy water drumming, is practiced by the Baka Forest People of central Africa. Tones are produced by trapping air in one’s hands and hitting the surface of the water, to create percussive musical rhythms.
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