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TIL of the "Hippy Trail" when thousands of western hippies traveled the Silk Road by bus, car, van, motorcycle, or hitch hiking, mingling with locals in Afghanistan (and the entire Silk Road) in the 1960s-70s, officially ending in 1979 when the Afghanistan war started

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rRZny TIL: Kangal dogs have the strongest bite force, at around 743 psi, which is 3x that of a pitbull
7rg4x TIL Covert consciousness "is consciousness that cannot be detected by bedside examination. Studies . . . suggest that approximately 10 percent of those believed to be in a vegetative state or a low-level minimally conscious state . . . can actually follow commands during functional MRI or EEG tests"
X0QL6 TIL that technically speaking, the cashew nut is not really a nut, but a thick shelled seed. Inside the shell layer is a toxic resin. If any of the resin gets on the nut, the nut becomes inedible. Thus, the shell must be opened properly & steamed to cook
XEpxX TIL that in 1937 Martin Goodman, the founder of Marvel Comics bought tickets on the Hindenburg to return from his honeymoon in Europe, but couldn't get seats together with his wife, so they took an airplane instead. Marvel Comics #1 came out two years later.
1R68 TIL that a Peanuts character named Charlotte Braun was killed off by Schulz after a fan asked him to remove her from the strip. In his response, Schultz told the fan she was responsible for the death of the character and included a picture of Charlotte Braun with an ax through her head