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TIL Living things such as the jewel wasp can make their victims, cockroaches, into their "zombies".

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GYVp1 TIL during WWII there was a Finnish soldier who overdosed on amphetamines to escape from Soviets. In the following week, he proceeded to ski 400 km (250 miles), dropped down to 94lb, survived a landmine, and ate a bird raw.
d8KXj TIL during the SARS epidemic in 2004, a 45-year-old Taiwanese woman died from alcohol poisoning after immersing herself in a bathtub full of 40% alcohol for 12 hours, likely because she thought the alcohol would decontaminate her if she had been exposed to the virus.
J8aQ TIL In 1851 when the refrigerated ice machine was patented, the large ice-importing industry ran a smear campaign against the technology, calling it immoral.
BajW TIL Elvis Presley on finding out about his wife’s affair, forcefully had sex with her and said “This is how a real man makes love to his woman”
X07R8 TIL that Astrud Gilberto made just $120 for singing The Girl from Ipanema, which was the standard studio musician rate at the time. This was because Stan Getz personally intervened to ensure she got nothing.