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TIL of Agness, a town in rural SE Oregon, that is serviced by USPS mailboat due to mountainous and isolated terrain.

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VEMm TIL that a rat and a human were hooked up to a virtual reality simulator to interact with each other. The subjects were 12 miles apart and the human did not know the rat was a rat.
p8Jvb TIL cats like to eat spider plants because they produce a compound that is thought to be related to opium and is mildly hallucinogenic
xVDk5 TIL that the Inca people used no money or currency of any kind.
b6Pdp TIL there was a confidential Simple Sabotage directive for CIA workers to use in case of a military coup in WWII.
j6erp TIL in 2005 pro golfer John Daly sued a Florida newspaper for saying he failed “the scoundrel sniff test”. The case was thrown out because Daly couldn’t disprove any of the statements made in the article.