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TIL that you would have to smoke 1500 pounds of weed in 14 minutes to get a lethal dose of THC. The interesting things you learn in pharmacy school :)

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4Xn4J TIL that during the filming of Planet Earth II, the filmmakers went out of their way to save the lost baby turtles despite the convention that, as Sir David Attenborough said, "If you’re a film cameraman you are trained, as it were, to be the observer, a non-participant"
VBRxG TIL the smallest island in Manhattan is the 100x200 foot artificial island "U Thant Island," officially "Belmont Island," created during the 1915 construction of the Steinway Tunnel directly underneath. It is home to a small colony of double-crested cormorants.
epBPE TIL the Cherokee writing system was invented by one man, Sequoyah. His 6yo daughter was the first to learn it, but they were charged with sorcery. Kept apart, they wrote letters to one another; this convinced the town it was just communication. 25 years later, nearly 100% of Cherokee were literate.
9w6Nm TIL Mercator maps were never intended as general-purpose world maps. The massive distortion of geographical geometry is a side-effect of the map's special feature: simple marine navigation. A course along any constant compass direction is represented on the map as a straight line.
P1MgE TIL the Platypus is one of the few mammals to lay eggs and produce venom.