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TIL a chemistry student accidentally synthesized the chemical MPTP and gave himself Parkinson's syndrome.

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WAGo TIL of Verkhoyanks, a town in Russia where the average temperature is -45C/-49F. In the middle of a 7 month winter the 1300 residents were attacked by a pack of 400 wolves.
lo6xV TIL in 2017, a 17-year-old YouTube star insulted a notorious Mexican drug lord. Few days later, four men armed with “long weapons” stormed into a bar and opened fire at a table where the Youtuber was sitting and executed the teen, riddling him with 15 bullets.
nkAW TIL that “Paris Syndome” is a psychological disorder whereby Japanese tourists visiting Paris for the first time experience such severe culture shock that they become ill.
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8wPK TIL that in spite of what countless ninja movies and animes would have us believe, Shuriken were used mostly for distraction rather than killing, and had plenty of uses other than those of a throwing weapon.