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TIL The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile.

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9YyOB TIL that in 1995 NASA updated an original study by Peter N Witt on the effects of various drugs on spiders and found similar results.
wokOW TIL about the Loa Loa or eye worm due to worms occasionally migrating into the eye causing discomfort and anxiety
LQyZm TIL that a flight delay, weather, and foot perspiration prevented Richard Reid (the infamous Shoe Bomber) from successfully detonating his high-tops in flight.
e0J1D TIL: One of the first inductees in the Poker Hall of Fame died 60 years before Poker was invented
XZbP TIL the Dalai Lama was on the CIA payroll ($180k/yr) from the late 1950’s to 1974.