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TIL Hugh Heffner advocated for gay rights in the 1950’s

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yVOY8 TIL that the myth that vitamin C cures/reduces colds was started by aging two time Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling, as he was convinced taking large doses of the vitamin would make him live longer and could even cure cancer
6W48 Today I learned that no-one is producing antivenom for North Americas most venomous snake, because it isn’t profitable.
R5lr6 TIL about nutting stones, unusually shaped rocks with shallow dimples used by primitive people to crack hard shelled nuts like walnuts or hickory nuts.
0wNdM TIL The crew of Soyuz 11 died in space from asphyxiation, when a valve in their re-entry module stuck open. The capsule landed safely, but the crew were dead.
D1yDP TIL an economy coffin is designed to drop a body into the grave then be reused, conserving the wood materials and allow for quicker body decomposition. It did not catch on.