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Today I learned of the slow loris, the only poisonous primate in existence. It's toxin can kill a human, and may have evolved from trying to mimic a cobra.

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9OWQ TIL the first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana. In 1971 or 1972, students at Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory used ARPANET—the earliest iteration of the Internet—to arrange a marijuana deal with their counterparts at the MIT
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