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TIL that methamphetamine improves snails’ long-term memories and also prevents them from forgetting already learned ones.

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YpddZ TIL that according to an MI5 agent who infiltrated the Provisional IRA, Irish Republican chiefs couldn’t bring themselves to attack targets in Scotland during the Troubles because they viewed them as “Celtic cousins”
o5gW TIL morality, empathy, altruism and gratitude have been observed in non-human mammals, suggesting that our own sense of morality comes not from religion or society, but from biology.
ZpaYv TIL The song 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton is rooted to the 9to5 movement in which secretaries and working women stood up for their rights to be treated equal in the workplace
XxME TIL The Church of Satan won’t give membership to convicted felons.
4Xb7a TIL There were more than 600 assassination attempts against Fidel Castro