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TIL the NASA Voyager probes that are currently exploring interstellar space have the computing power of a standard key fob. Science is amazing.

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GmZ1 TIL that almost every renowned philosopher of Ancient Greece and Rome experienced what we know as “tripping” by being an initiates in the cult of Demeter. Initiates went through an annual rite of passage involving ergot, the founding compound of LSD.
JyQl TIL Ronald Reagan is the only US president to have worn a Nazi uniform. It was in the 1942 movie “Desperate Journey”
EVrX TIL I learned that the band Aerosmith earned more money from ‘Guitar Hero’ than from any of their albums
Qao9 TIL left-spiraling snails are generally as rare as left handed humans, especially because left and right spiraled snails can’t mate together easily, but in Japan snakes gobble up righties easily but can’t bite into the lefties, so there are way more lefties.
0wbAy TIL of a foster father that only takes in terminally ill children