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TIL Pennies buried in a garden will repel slugs, which get electric shocks from touching copper and zinc

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e0xn4 TIL Sigmund Freud never cured anyone. He promoted cocaine as a miracle drug capable of curing a wide range of diseases, and advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise
naBY TIL hitting snooze on your alarm can make you more tired than if you had gotten up right away. Especially if you purposefully set it early with the intention of hitting snooze.
6991l TIL about Marsey Borders, the "Dust Lady" photographed in the aftermath of 9/11.
6EgJQ Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out, you wouldn't even make it halfway.
kOr5m TIL that because we can't say for certain whether or not lobsters feel pain, it is now considered an act of animal cruelty to boil lobsters alive in Switzerland