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TIL: Edison shocked elephants with AC to disprove Tesla, trying to prove that DC is safer

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W7JxB TIL: The Florida Man Games are a thing.
KoPJ TIL a researcher has conjectured that the pineal gland releases the psychedelic compound DMT when near death. High doses of DMT caused subjects to enter into non-corporeal, independent realms of existence inhabited by beings of light who were expecting the volunteers.
Ee8P TIL at the time of 101 Dalmations’ production there was talk about closing Disney’s animation department because of the wildly expensive an under-performing Sleeping Beauty. The production of Dalmations was cut in half because of a modified Xerox machine.
MMvV TIL when the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play a home game, the stadium is filled with enough people to qualify as the state’s third-largest city.
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