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TIL That Alasaka's coastline is longer than all other 49 states combined. Yes, including Hawaii

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6EwKW TIL: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, designed by the “Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons,” so isolated prisoners that many went insane. (The 1829 castle-like complex did have better comforts than period prisons --like dependable heat. Shut: 1971, ruin-park since '94.)
GMQ1 TIL magic mushrooms may give users trippy experiences by creating a hyperconnected brain. The active ingredient in the psychedelic drug, psilocybin, seems to completely disrupt the normal communication networks in the brain, by connecting “brain regions that don’t normally talk together.”
vP1V7 TIL USS Red Rover (1859) was a 650-ton Confederate States of America steamer that the United States Navy captured. After refitting the vessel, the Union used it as a hospital ship during the American Civil War.
MedvB TIL about Orphan Drugs. Drug needed for diseases/conditions so rare there is zero profitability for drug companies to develop, so governments have to step in and fund them.
yW7v TIL Danny Devito helped produce Pulp Fiction and Gattacca