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TIL that an Englishman took 40,000 ecstasy pills in nine years.

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X07vr TIL that an object's "Escape Velocity" (from any body of mass) is the same as the speed at which it would hit the ground if it were dropped from infinity (without external influence)
OGbY7 TIL that a 2-billion-year-old natural nuclear reactor was discovered in Africa, which operated for over 500,000 years.