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TIL That we lost 28,800 rubber ducks at sea over 20 years ago. They’re still there, and have taught us so much about ocean currents and plastic pollution.

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kOrkm TIL almost an entire French town in 1951 was poisoned by ergot, the fungus LSD is made from. ”I am dead and my head is made of copper and I have snakes in my stomach and they are burning me,” screamed one man before trying to jump into a river
7WYZ TIL the Nazis developed experimental drug cocktail in which the Nazi doctors found that equipment-laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) without resting before they collapsed.
5Qkk TIL that Kosovo has at least 1 trillion dollars worth of natural resources and the fifth largest lignite reserves in the world, yet it’s the second poorest country in Europe.
YppYd TIL: Every lawsuit against Borat (the movie) was dismissed. There were dozens of $100k+ lawsuits
nW4n7 TIL: Horseshoe crabs are vital for the survival of migratory birds. As migratory birds fly from South America to nesting sites in the Arctic, they stop in the Mid-Atlantic to "re-fuel" on freshly-spawned horseshoe crab eggs.