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TIL Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs to experience withdrawal from

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v14pK TIL The Vietnam government executes corporate executives convicted of financial crimes or corporate malfeasance.
neA1o TIL that a video of the moon landing ending in disaster and Nixon reading the "other speech" exists (as part of a project that illustrates the possibilities of deepfake technology)
78W8r TIL about Sebastianism, a cult which believes Portuguese King Sebastião I was never killed in battle and will return when Portugal needs him the most. The last Sebastianists are found on a Brazilian island where the locals say he's been reincarnated as a bull.
Yp91d TIL a study of peer-reviewed journals in the field of genomics found that 19.6% of studies contained data errors created by Microsoft Excel. That's because some genes with names like SEPT2 (Septin 2) were automatically being converted by Excel into dates.
jeGQ TIL There is a type of shrimp which has the hardest “punch” of any animal, approximately the same acceleration as a .22 caliber bullet. They have been known to break through aquarium glass.