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TIL that the chemist Alexander Shulgin invented over 200 psychedelic drugs , self-administered them and wrote a book the experience he had with each of them

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5YKRP TIL Alberta Canada is the largest inhabited land mass that has no rat population. Every territory surrounding it has rats, but high rat control efforts have kept them out.
wNvJ TIL A former dictator of of Myanmar thought 9 was his lucky number, so decreed that all currency denominations not divisible by 9 no longer had value, devastating the savings of much of the population.
mxaYP TIL notorious criminal John Dillinger served a stint as a sailor aboard the battleship USS Utah, which long after he left the service, was destroyed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She still rests in the Harbor today as a lesser known memorial compared to the USS Arizona.
dvLE TIL that there is a sport called Freestyle Canoeing
8a4Y4 TIL that certain fish skin can be grafted onto burns and diabetic wounds. The material recruits the body’s own cells and is eventually converted into living tissue.