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TIL the US Army admits it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard gas agent in the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, landmines and rockets, and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste.

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0Gdy TIL that a major cause of human rabies deaths in India is faith healing as people believe that they’ve been impregnated by puppies after being bitten by a dog and consult a healer instead of a doctor before it’s too late. This mass hysteria is called Puppy pregnancy syndrome.
P9Mg TIL That adult Luna Moths develop without a mouth, their only purpose is to mate within their 7-day lifespan. After which they die of starvation.
6D1m TIL it costs between 35,000-80,000 US dollars to climb Mount Everest. The permit alone costs 11,000 dollars.
e06KE TIL Alcoholics anonymous co-founder, Bill Wilson, experimented with LSD. He found the experiences to be so life changing that he considered the use of LSD as a step of AA. He then removed himself from the AA governing body after backlash.
eR9g TIL Four months after approving the merger of Comcast and NBC in 2011, Meredith Attwell Baker, the FCC commissioner who approved the deal, was hired as a lobbyist by Comcast.