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TIL that the only kid got poisoned from eating a Halloween candy got it from his dad.

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loNZB TIL Swedish Painter Hilma Af Klint is considered to have invented abstract painting and was supposedly led to do so by a group of spirits called the "High Masters" that she contacted at séances. She left instructions that her work can only be displayed 20 years after her death at a special temple.
YNDG TIL that the US military briefly investigated the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a comedic publication satirizing academia, after finding their joke article on how to build a nuclear bomb filed away at the abandoned Al Qaeda headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.
VMnVp TIL that modern wolves are not closely related to the wolves that were first domesticated, implying that the direct ancestor of the domestic dog is extinct
R5N56 TIL that dwelling too much on happy memories can lead to "sentimental longing," which is a dangerous form of noatalgia that makes us think "today must be bad, because yesterday was better."
KOabB TIL about Mitsuyasu Maeno, a Japanese porn star who got so mad at a corrupt politician for betraying far right nationalists and violating ancient samurai code that he kamikazed a plane into his house