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LPT if your SO ever asks to see your phone, ask to see theirs.
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LPT if your SO ever asks to see your phone, ask to see theirs.

Mind you it only works if you’re innocent, but a gf once said she thought I was seeing someone and asked to look at my phone. “Sure” I said holding mine out, “mind if I look at yours?”

Suddenly it wasn’t so important anymore. It is often the case that people who suspect/accuse you of cheating are projecting their own guilty conscious onto you. And yes, she was cheating.


TIL humans are the "most sensitive" to the castor oil seeds: it takes 1 to kill a full grown human, 11 to kill a dog, and a massive dose of 80 to kill a duck. The seeds contain ricin which is roughly 6000 times more poisonous than cyanide.











TIL the common plastic garden chair is called a "Monobloc" chair, and was once banned in Switzerland for polluting the cityscape.
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TIL that despite repeated attempts to uncover one, there was not a single documented instance of an anti-Vietnam War protester spitting on a returning soldier


TIL in 2020 Cambridge University Library announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, "worth many millions of pounds", had been missing for 20 years & had likely been stolen. One of the notebooks contains Darwin's famous Tree of Life sketch that explores the relationship between species.








TIL Metallica released a video in 2012 appealing for help to solve the 2009 murder of a 20yo fan, Morgan Harrington, who disappeared after their show. They offered $50K on top of the $100K by police.