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TIL that Spice in Dune is partially an analogue for psilocybin, and the blue eyes are because psilocybin is blue

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wn7E TIL That Japan’s surrender following the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki may have been due in part to the “confession” of the captured US pilot Marcus McDilda, revealed under totrture that the US had 100 atomic bombs and would bomb Tokyo and Kyoto next.
w4oo TIL the Bulgarian mafia has killed the head of the same football team six times
98vB TIL Pablo Picasso’s full name is Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
OG0OY TIL about the Witches Well, a (now) dry fountain installed outside Edinburgh Castle, in 1894, to memorialize the thousands of victims, mostly women, accused of witchcraft who were burned at the stake, nearby. It is the only such memorial to these victims in Scotland.
KYob6 TIL female elephants stay fertile into their 60s