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TIL Lemurs chew on, then rub, cyanide-secreting millepedes onto their fur to get high. And to protect against mosquitos.

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NXgLe TIL that Michael Jackson's Thriller album was the best-selling album in the U.S. for 2 years straight, sold 32 million copies worldwide by 1983, and was certified 34x Platinum by the RIAA in 2021, making it one of only two albums to ever get more than 3x Diamond certified.
QZbe TIL that in 1848 light-skinned slave Ellen Craft, unable to travel with him as a woman, escaped with her dark-skinned husband by pretending to be both a white man and her husband’s owner. They traveled openly, first class, a thousand miles north from Georgia to freedom.
6EkWQ TIL that Canada has entire mountain ranges that have never been explored.
oBdZK TIL the potential assassin, Richard Lawrence, of Andrew Jackson had both of his guns misfire & Jackson then clubbed him with his cane. Even members of the House had to stop him from beating the man to death.
p4wO TIL that lightning makes mushrooms multiply.