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TIL - About dimethylmercury, it's a form of mercury but way stronger. It's a neurotoxin that can kill you with 2 drops or 0.1 mL.

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kl7m TIL a man named Russell Jones, an art director from Park Slope, Brooklyn, received numerous phone calls from Wu-Tang fans who thought he was Russell Jones aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard. One time, Jones received a phone call from Method Man himself, who asked to speak to “Dirty”.
EKE7 TIL in the Brazilian translation of Star Wars, Count Dooku’s name was changed to Dookan because in portuguese “Dooku” can be roughly translated to “from the ass” or even “I do anal”
QbD6 TIL that Albert Einstein wrote an essay in praise of socialism, attacking capitalist society.
8p5b TIL - Anderson Cooper is related to Cornelius Vanderbilt and a Civil War general, was a Calvin Klein model, interned at the CIA, studied Vietnamese, lived in Africa and caught malaria…
wLXpJ Jedidiah Jenkins quit his job and decided to bike from Oregon to the southern tip of South America. His best friend, filmmaker Kenny Laubbacher, came along for the ride. This short film follows Jenkins as he shares what he's learned from his journey so far. “When you’re a kid, everything is astonishing. Everything is new, and so your brain is awake and turned on ... Once your brain establishes a routine, it stops ... the alertness goes away,” he says. By choosing adventure Jenkins is able to reactivate his brain and turn his “hundred years on this planet into a thousand.