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TIL there are only two poisonous snakes: the Japanese grass snake and Common garter snake.

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d8PA7 TIL Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music) was on a flight to Nairobi when a mentally ill passenger broke into the cockpit and attacked the pilots. During the struggle the plane dropped 12,000 feet in 25 seconds, which is the fastest rate of descent from which any civil aircraft has ever recovered.
7rYMZ TIL The Romans had water powered factories
E1YLX TIL in Norway, everyone's salary is public record and available online.
wL1ZY TIL that "world’s leading source of high-grade uranium" was accidentally found in 1966 by a bunch of oil dudes who took a Geiger counter on a plane so they could write off their fishing trips as business expenses.
5YyP TIL MDMA is 100 years old this year