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TIL about Oceanic the largest ship in the world until 1901 and the predecessor of the Titanic

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ZonY TIL smoking scorpions to get high is a growing problem in Pakistan. The high lasts around 10 hours and supposedly makes everything look like it’s “dancing.” The scorpions can be smoked straight or mixed with tobacco or hash.
XjMk TIL That Philip K Dick wrote the book The Man In The High Castle by consulting the Chinese book of divination, the I Ching. He used the I Ching to determine the direction of key plot points.
WkoE9 TIL At a prison facility in Nuuk, Greenland some inmates reportedly hold the keys to their own cells (to afford them privacy), and others may leave the premises during the day to go to work or school. Perhaps surprisingly, inmates are even allowed to go hunting with rifles to shoot birds and seals.
neADB TIL: A Korean programmer made a ransomware program as a joke, requiring the victim to get a high score in the Japanese bullet hell shooter "Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object" on the highest difficulty to get their files back.
B5Ax TIL A 19 yr old pizza delivery guy helped save a man’s life by performing CPR on the customer who was turning blue outside the house. He said, “I left a pizza boy and came back a pizza man.” His tip was 25 bucks.