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TIL: A Rutgers study found out that drug addicts became trapped into addiction trying to seek relief from emotional lows rather than euphoric highs as previously thought.

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e0bWJ TIL that Caribbean sperm whales have a different “speaking” accent than whales in other oceans.
kJwa1 TIL that the T.V. show Archer had to re-name the characters' employer. At the start of the series the characters worked for "the International Secret Intelligence Service" (prominently called I.S.I.S. for short). When the Iraq occupation ended real world events gave the name an unwanted connotation.
VELD TIL the rarest flower in the world is the Kadupul, which blossoms only for a few hours close to midnight
8aM5X TIL an actor in Nazi Germany lost his job for being Jewish. He went to the Alps, grew a beard, and dyed all his hair by bathing in diluted hydrogen. He returned to the stage claiming to be a self-taught peasant actor and was praised by the Nazis as "proof of the superiority of Aryan blood."
P19n TIL that Barn Owls can see an object at 2 meters with an illumination of .00000073 foot candles. This is equivalent to a person seeing an object by the light of a match a mile away.