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TIL If you put superglue on cotton it will catch fire
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TIL a chemistry grad student accidentally synthesized the chemical MPTP and gave himself Parkinsonian Syndrome while trying to make opioids - accidentally advancing Parkinson’s research at his own expense
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TIL that the first confession elicited from a suspect with the famous Reid Technique -- still used during police interrogations throughout the U.S. -- was later discovered to be completely false, and led to a $500K settlement for wrongful conviction.
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TIL: Mike Merrill has modeled his life after the stock market. He’s issued 1,000 “shares” of himself and life decisions are made by his shareholders’ votes. Some of the life decisions his investors have made for him are his hair color, the car he drives, his love interests, and even his diet.
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TIL There is a colony of Japanese Snow Monkeys that are living in the wilds of South Texas
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TIL A Snail Wakes Up After 5 Years of Being Glued to a Museum Card. In 1846, authorities at the British Museum glued what they thought was a deceased snail to a piece of cardboard for display. After it seemingly became unglued 5 years later, they discovered it had been alive the whole time.