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TIL my theory of doorways causing that forget what you're doing effect is real.

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4knra TIL of Kevin Budden, who caught a deadly taipan by hand and hitchhiked to town still holding the snake. He lost his grip and was bitten, but bagged the snake and made the driver promise to get it to researchers. Kevin died the next day, but the snake was used to create the first taipan antivenom.
GYoeN TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.
ndRd TIL of Diana Kim, a photographer from Hawaii, who, after 10 years of documenting the homeless, found her own father among them.
kJlJd TIL Matthew Shepard had a sexual history with one of his killers.
1pY4 TIL The average male medieval peasant ate between 160% to 200% more calories than your average male now. Which kind of explains why it’s so hard to sustain 1500 calorie diets…