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TIL that Cornish game hens are just baby chickens

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mx05P TIL in 1518 a "dancing plague" broke out in Strasbourg. Dozens of people started dancing for no apparent reason, some to the point of exhaustion and death. Some historians have attributed the plague to the accidental consumption of a fungus that contains a compound structurally similar to LSD.
a55Z TIL that in 2013 a study from Connecticut College revealed that Oreos might be as addictive as cocaine
4XDPa TIL Proboscis monkeys have red dicks
4GQa TIL 30,000 people were killed during the 1902 Mount Pelee eruption, because the Governor refused to evacuate until after election day. The right wing government was worried about a possible socialist victory, and refused to let anyone leave until after the election on May 11th. It erupted on May 8th
Egy5w TIL about William Stuart-Houston, Hitler's half-nephew who fought in the US Navy against the Nazis, even earning a Purple Heart. He changed his name after the war.