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The TIL ("today I learned") thread

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Simon the Sorcerer was actually some biblical guy that was like the first heretic and maybe founded gnosticism and shit
instead of this computer game guy
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Today I learned about Simon the sorcerer.

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Unripened persimmons can polymerize in the stomach forming a gluey coagulum, a "foodball" or phytobezoar, that can affix with other stomach matter, but drinking Coca-Cola usually dissolves the phytobezoar.
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the eyes have something called ocular immune privilege, meaning the immune system doesn't fuck with our eyes to the same degree it does with other body parts, because if the eyes got all swole it would mess with our Vision. or something like that
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tODAY I learned that all my messages I try sending just end up in the outbox lol

Gimp send me a new so i can reply at least that seems to work
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don't worry a message in the outbox just means that the recipient hasn't read the message, it's been sent tho
just another life lesson courtesy of gimp mask no problemo ;)
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