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TIL there are no snakes in Hawaii, but Hawaii imported sterilized male snakes for training border guard dogs to find snakes in luggage.

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DpmD TIL GlaxoSmithKline knew that the anti-depressant drug paroxetine didn’t work in adolescents and increased their risk of suicide, yet didn’t divulge the information as “it would be commercially unacceptable to include a statement that efficacy had not been demonstrated.”
R5Db8 TIl that in 1974 during the 46th academy awards a man named Robert Opel snuck into the back of the stage and proceeded to run completely naked and flashing a peace sigh while David Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor
gJVW TIL of the Basque language: It isn’t in any language family and is completely distinct from any other language in the world
0lnL TIL that before 194 BC, using sticks and shadows, Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the Earth’s circumference with an error between 2 and 15%, and calculated the tilt of the Earth and the distance of the Sun to the Earth with near perfect accuracy.
nlYB TIL that El Cid, a military leader in the middle ages, was so feared that, after his death, his embalmed body was placed on a horse and sent into battle causing the enemy to flee.