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TIL In 2013 A Brazilian Woman Laced Her Vagina With Poison So That Oral Sex Would Kill Her Husband.

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0dQXv TIL that some cacti species exhibit a form of neuroactivity, these species produce psychoactive compounds which have been used by Indigenous peoples in religious rituals for thousands of years.
9wDmX TIL in No Country for Old Men one of the characters says "Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge", which is a reference to a 1979 assassination committed by Woody Harrelson’s father, for which he received 2 life sentences
N7ebM TIL that 30+ minutes of running 5 days a week has been linked to 9 years of less aging on the cellular level
ADbGx TIL that the hands of Winifred Atwell, one of the UK's most successful pianists of all time, were famously insured by Lloyd's of London for £40,000 with her policy stipulating that she was never to wash any dishes. She remains the only female instrumentalist to have a UK Singles Chart No.1.
PYlGn TIL that when China ordered a Boeing 767 from the U.S. in 2002 to serve as its presidential jet, its intelligence service discovered nearly 30 bugging devices onboard the plane, "including one in the headboard of the presidential bed." The C.I.A. and the White House refused to comment.