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1. 1. True: The CIA Dosed An Entire French Village With Acid To See What Would Happen

   

   According to BoingBoing the CIA laced bread from a village bakery in Pont-Saint-Esprit with acid as part of its MK-ULTRA mind-control experiments. One man tried to drown himself, a young boy tried to strangle his grandmother, and a dude jumped out of a window under the mistaken assumption that he was a plane. Nice one, CIA. Really cool.

2. 2. True: Baseball Legend Dock Ellis Once Pitched a No-Hitter Under the Influence of LSD

   This is his awesome story.

3. 3. False: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Does Not Stand for LSD

   Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was the title of the below drawing, by Lennon's son Julian. The drawing is of his friend Lucy Vodden, in the sky, with diamonds. Whether young Julian was taking acid at the time is up for debate.

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5. 4. False: Drug Dealers Do Not Hand out Rub-on Tattoos Laced With LSD to Children

   Ever hear that Blue Star Acid story about kids being given acid in the form of tattoos? Total crock. Why would drug dealers give away acid for free?

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7. 5. False: Nobody Ever Took Acid And Thought They Were an Orange

   There have been zero reported cases of acid casualties being confined to a psych ward because they think they'll turn into OJ if anyone touches them. Hasn't stopped anyone from telling that old story over the last 50 years or so, though.

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9. 6. True: The US Government Gave Artists LSD To See How It Would Affect Their Work

   This is a series of drawings of a face, made by an artist at intervals after taking LSD. Click here to read his notes. The last one is awesome: "I have nothing to say about this last drawing, it is bad and uninteresting, I want to go home now."

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11. 7. True: You Can Totally Get Acid In Obama Flavors!

    

12. 8. True: Aldous Huxley Took Acid The Day He Died

    In addition to Brave New World, Huxley wrote a seminal text on hallucinogens entitled The Doors of Perception. And he went out like a badass.

14. 9. True: A High School Student in Santa Cruz Totally Dosed His Teacher With Acid on a Field Trip

    You can read the whole wacky story here.

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16. 10. True: The British Tested The Effects of LSD on Members of the Armed Forces

    The results were kind of hilarious.

18. 11. True: This Girl Had a Really Bad Acid Trip

19. Inside LSD

    And now, from National Geographic Explorer, everything else you ever wanted to know about lysergic acid diethylamide.

1. The Founding Fathers were growers.

   

   George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp on their plantations. TJ actually wrote the Declaration of Independence while high (that last part is not actually true).

2. 2. Sinsemilla is the most potent form of pot.

   

   Sinsemilla (Spanish for "without seeds") is a female plant that is un-pollinated (no seeds!) to induce a high resin content.

3. 3. Humans have been growing kindbud since the Neolithic era.

   

   Ha ha, Stonehenge stoners.

4. 4. Cultivation (for medical purposes, with a doctor's note, killjoy) is legal in these 13 states:

   

   Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. p.s. "Cultivation" is a fancy word for "growing."

5. 5. Otherwise, even SEED possession is illegal in the US.

   

   Pot life starts at conception!

6. 6. Marijuana plants can grow anywhere corn can grow.

   

   If only the government subsidized weed as much as corn! Think about how much healthier we'd all be!

7. 7. Growing pot is NOT for the disorganized, spacey stoner.

   

   Here is the Grower's Security Checklist, according to to Marijuana Horticulture; The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible by Jorge Cervantes.

8. 8. Cops carry heat guns to detect UV lights in suburban homes.

   

   (This is why you should keep your electricity bill low.)

9. 9. The US Postal Service is the most efficient way to ship your pot.

   

   You should use a fake return address and perhaps nestle it in some peanut butter.

10. 10. If you are hankering for a graduate degree, you can go to pot college!

    

    Courses available in Oakland and Detroit.

1. Jabba the Hutt was a hermaphrodite

   

   Actually, all the Hutts are hermaphrodites.

2. 2. Cartman's mom is a hermaphrodite

3. 3. You could have both male and female genitalia and not know it

   Sometimes, it takes an MRI.

4. 4. The rumor about Jamie Lee Curtis being a hermaphrodite is (probably) not true

   

   But people love to speculate! Just ask Lady Gaga (who, btw, is definitely a woman).

5. 5. About 1 in 1500 people are born intersex

   But about 1 percent of live births -- 1 out of every hundred -- exhibit some degree of sexual ambiguity.

6. 6. Hermaphrodite papayas are the best

   

   Male papayas don't reproduce and female papayas need the males in order to do so, but hemraphrodite papayas can germinate themselves, making them awesome. (via)

7. 7. Sexual characteristics do not equal gender

   

   For instance: The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) still hasn't decided what Caster Semenya's gender status is for competition. (via)

8. 8. Hermaphrodite comes from the Greek

   

   The boring story is that the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, cleverly named Hermaphroditus, was fused with a female nymph who'd fallen in love with him, and they became one intersex being. (via)

9. 9. Did you know that connectors can be hermaphrodites?

   

   Now you do!

10. 10. Ambiguous Genitalia would be a great name for a band

    Just sayin'.

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1. The hipsters may just make it.

   

   If a 21kt nuclear device was set off in downtown New York City, the overpressure from the blast would only be strong enough to kill instantly within about a 1/3 mile radius. This means that the denizens of Brooklyn would survive the initial explosion, but would have to take shelter from the inevitable nuclear fallout. (via)

2. 2. If the blast doesn't kill you, the heat will.

   The heat generated by a nuclear explosion can reach about 9,000 degrees, which is hotter than the surface of the Sun. The thermal component accounts for about 1/3rd of a nuclear weapons power. It's hot enough to permanently burn an object's shadow onto a surface behind it. (via)

3. 3. Despite popular belief, Twinkies won't save you.

   

   Despite what popular culture would like us to believe, Twinkies do not have the radiation resistant, preservative-packed shelf life we would like to think they do. According to Hostess, a Twinkie stays good for about 25 days, and is as susceptible to nuclear radiation as any other food. (via)

4. 4. Cockroaches are not the only things that will survive.

   Everyone knows that a cockroach can survive higher dosages of nuclear radiation than humans, but they aren't alone. The Mythbusters proved that a number of insects are remarkably resistant to the effects of nuclear radiation.

5. 5. The US has "misplaced" 8 nuclear weapons.

   

   The Defense Department has a special name for nuclear weapons that have gone missing. They are known as "Broken Arrows". During the Cold War, the United States lost track of 8 nuclear weapons (a combined explosive force 2,200 times the bomb dropped on Hiroshima).

6. 6. It only takes about 35 lbs of enriched Uranium to make an atomic bomb.

   

   It takes as little as 35 pounds of enriched Uranium, and as little as 9 pounds of enriched Plutonium to construct a nuclear weapon. Luckily, the facilities required to enrich raw Uranium are expensive, and are larger than 5 football fields. (via)

7. 7. People exposed to nuclear fallout are eight times more likely to develop mutations.

   

   A study from 1956 found that people living in a nuclear test site in Kazakhstan were 8 times more likely to develop genetic mutations, and their children's genetic mutation risk had increased five-fold. (via)

8. 8. Only 3 feet of water can protect you from nuclear fallout.

   

   After the initial attack, fallout can linger for months. Fortunately, it only takes 5 inches of steel, 16 inches of brick, 2 feet of packed earth, or 3 feet of water to protect against radioactive fallout. (via)

9. 9. A Neutrino beam could (theoretically) neutralize any nuclear weapon.

   

   In theory, a weapon that fires a neutrino beam could effectively neutralize a nuclear bomb anywhere on the planet, but it would need to be 1000 km wide, require 50 gigawatts of power (enough power to run a city) and would cost $100 billion dollars to construct. (via)

10. 10. Nuclear winter could potentially counteract the effects of global warming.

    

    The dust kicked up into the atmosphere after a big enough nuclear blast could offer enough protection from sunlight to reverse the effects of global warming. Of course, it could also plunge us into a new ice age if too much sunlight is blocked. (via)

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1. The Capybara

   

   The capybara is the largest rodent in the world. Capybaras are gentle and will usually allow humans to pet and hand-feed them. They are even kept as pets!

2. 2. Albino Alligators

   

   Albino gators are very rare and are mainly found in zoos. They are very sensitive to light.

3. 3. The Aye Aye

   

   The Aye Aye is the world's largest nocturnal primate. It is also one of the ugliest.

4. 4. The Agora Rabbit

   

   The Agora rabbit is a domesticated rabbit, known and cultivated for its fur. Obviously.

5. 5. Blobfish

   

   The blobfish inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of mainland Australia and Tasmania, it is rarely seen by humans.

6. 6. Tamarin

   

   The tamarin is a squirrel sized monkey with a beard!

7. 7. The Giant Chinese Salamander

   

   The giant Chinese salamander is the largest salamander in the world. It is considered critically endangered and can only be found in rocky mountain streams/lakes in China.

8. 8. The Baskin Shark

   

   The baskin shark is the second largest living shark, after the whale shark.

9. 9. Pygmy Tarsiers

   

   Tarsiers are small animals with ENORMOUS eyes. They are found only in Southeast Asia.

10. 10. The Slow Loris

    The cutest animal ever.

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