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TIL that Professor Kenneth Bentley and his entire team, who discovered Etorphine (a drug which is 1000-3000 times more potent than morphine and 4mg will immobilize a 4000kg elephant), passed out because someone stirred their morning tea with a glass stirrer used to make the etorphine.

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7rkwP TIL: King Zog I of Albania, had 600 blood feuds; survived 55 assassination attempts, had shot back at his assassins; smoked 200 cigarettes a day; escaped from France with help from Ian Fleming.
KYEVJ TIL about the Phoebus Cartel, an oligopoly that carved up the early light bulb market for profit and to reduce the operating life of light bulbs from about 2,500 hours to under 1,000 hours to force people to buy more bulbs. It’s an early example of planned obsolescence to drive profits.
rRdZ0 TIL the wealthiest YouTuber is a 7-year-old boy. Ryan Kaji of Ryan ToysReview has earned $22 million in on year after posting more than 4,000 minutes of content, averaging about $5,204.92 per minute of video.
J1dmj TIL Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than shrews.
6J7Z TIL that before the Soviet takeover, Afghan women comprised 50% of government workers, 70% of schoolteachers, and 40% of doctors in Kabul. Now the literacy rate for women is 12.6%. Only 6% of women get a high school education.