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TIL the term “Blowing Smoke up your ass” has its roots in life saving science.

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YyMG TIL the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin rewrote much of the book from memory in old age believing it to be an entirely new work due to her dementia
GmZ1 TIL that almost every renowned philosopher of Ancient Greece and Rome experienced what we know as “tripping” by being an initiates in the cult of Demeter. Initiates went through an annual rite of passage involving ergot, the founding compound of LSD.
W7vWL TIL John Nash's son, John Charles Nash, also has a PhD in mathematics and lives with schizophrenia.
8bJG TIL vampire bats’ saliva contains a protein that prevents their prey’s blood from clotting while the bat is drinking. This protein is called draculin.
ZpZGR TIL of former Governor's Councilor Herbert Connolly, who in 1988 arrived to the polls too late to cast a ballot for himself and lost by a single vote.