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TIL Hunter S Thompson refused to go on Conan O'Brien show until he finally agreed on one condition. Conan had to meet him on a remote farm to drink hard liquor and shoot guns.

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AKVx TIL of a town in Kazakhstan, residents of which suffer from an unkown anomaly: they fall asleep in broad daylight and suffer from hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss. Scientists call is a ‘sleep epidemic’ and can’t explain the reasons for this phenomenon.
6RJZ TIL that there’s an entire subculture convinced that people shift around between “alternate realities” to explain why they remember things that didn’t happen.
Y771r TIL: Colma, California was founded as a necropolis and the dead still outnumber the living 1000:1. The town's motto is "it's great to be alive in Colma".
b9M0a TIL about prehistoric aquatic reptiles and the mosasaurus, they are closely related to modern reptiles rather than dinosaurs and looked like a reptilian shark or dolphin. Also interesting is how these aquatic reptiles, mammals (dolphins), and fish (sharks), all evolved to look as if they’re related.
VBnBm TIL Texas produces the most renewable energy in the US