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TIL that the word “junkie” originates from the 1920’s when drug addicts stole scrap metal to fund their addiction.

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VBQb8 TIL that Dr Amy Bishop shot and killed three professors in a University of Alabama biology department meeting in 2010. It was found out later that she had shot and killed her brother in 1986 and was never charged.
MGyK til that breast milk makes cancercells suicidal
7ZZL TIL that trees in Australia have been known to explode.
rN7Px TIL turtles and tortoises have nerve endings in the shells. They can feel you touch their shells as well as pain when something hurts their shell.
Br8rD TIL: Cats are known as both Invasive Species AND Superpredators due to their ability to rapidly wipe out entire species of small fauna, only surpassed by humans