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TIL Homosexual black swans form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs and then drive them away.

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GY4N4 TIL people who consume a hallucinogenic drug may experience a mental disorder called hallucinogen persisting perception disorder, in which they continue experiencing the visual hallucinations and distortions from the drug long after it has worn off. Researchers don't know why this occurs
VdVm TIL: The educated middle class are now considered the working poor
OovvL TIL that Immanuel Kant promoted "scientific" racism, giving a hierarchy of four races: white Europeans "always advance to perfection", yellow Asians "can never reach the level of abstract concepts", black Africans "can be educated but only as servants", and red Amerindians "cannot be educated"
MeAJW TIL that the common practice to produce antivenom comes from horses. They are given very low doses of snake venom over long periods of time. Eventually the blood is taken from the animal, and the antibodies are purified out. The antibodies inside that blood then bind and neutralise the venom.
oR91Y TIL about Jim Humble, a self-proclaimed bishop that gives industrial bleach to sick people and autistic children