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n0lG TIL in Pakistan and India smoking scorpions to get high is a growing trend. The high lasts about 10 hours, with the first 6 being quite painful. Addicts of scorpion smoking describe it as more addictive than heroin, saying the hallucinations make “Everything appears like it is dancing.”
b5PZ TIL that the TV show ‘The Golden Girls’ began as a joke. To promote 'Miami Vice’ to advertisers, NBC in 1984 put on a skit about the nonexistent 'Miami Nice’, about retirees in Florida playing cards. Network executive Warren Littlefield, watching the audience laugh, liked the idea of such a sitcom.
p8BPN TIL When Isaac Watts wrote "Joy to the World" he didn't intend it to be about Christmas, but rather about Christ's promised return at the end of time
VMGvG TIL of the first English teacher in Japan — Ranald MacDonald. A bank clerk turned sailor, he taught 14 samurai English while he was held as prisoner.
epOlL TIL a signed, typed letter (1983) from Steve Jobs, in which he wrote "I'm afraid I don't sign autographs", sold at auction for $478,939.