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TIL that there is a real criminal called Dr. Chaos who is currently being held in Federal supermax prison in Colorado for causing 28 power failures and hoarding large amounts of cyanide.

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4d7X TIL French Roast Coffee is made using rejected beans and roasted so long the sugars caramelize. The term French Roast is a fancy way of saying the crappy beans.
4XPd5 TIL about the Mirror test, which attempts to determine if an animal possesses the ability of visual self-recognition. The animal gets marked and is then given a mirror. If the animal investigates the mark,it is taken as an indication that the animal perceives the reflected image as itself.
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