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TIL a man has been injecting snake venom for the past twenty years with the intentions of achieving immortality

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ney89 TIL the first photos that came back from Hubble were blurry and to fix that NASA gave it a new prescription lens
rxgd TIL that Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was at the forefront of the counterculture’s experimentation with psychedelics, which led to his 1954 work The Doors of Perception. Dying from cancer, he asked his wife on 22 November 1963 to inject him with 100 µg of LSD. He died later that day.
ookr TIL Mr Roger’s car was once stolen but the thief returned it when he realized whose car he had stolen.
1aad4 TIL the first US naval ship to have electric lighting was the USS Trenton (commissioned, 1877). The lights were installed in 1883
ADKO4 TIL of 'kangaroo words', that is, a word that contains a synonym inside it, i.e MAscuLinE, BLOssOM, cHickEN or hoNOuraBLE.