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TIL I learned that The Gambia uses marbles instead of paper ballots for elections

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J16rm TIL the Death Camas plant is so toxic that there is only one known pollinator. The plant is visited by a specialist mining bee, which can tolerate its toxins - others are fatally poisoned. One plant species name is Toxicoscordion venenosum var. venenosum ≈ toxic bulb poisonous poisonous.
EooX TIL That 78% of NFL players file bankruptcy within 5 years of retirement.
EPNw TIL Nikola Tesla dreamed of the Internet, stating “When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.”
VM79p TIL that an Israeli company, (Aleph Farms) 3D printed meat in space from cells extracted from a cow.
Nb0J TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s interest in spiritualism cost him a friendship with Harry Houdini. When Houdini showed Doyle that he could reproduce the so-called mystic powers of mediums, Doyle was unconvinced, and instead, believed that Houdini himself was a psychic.