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TIL that when the English colonial government in Dehli, India put a bounty on cobras to eliminate them from the city, it resulted in a cobra population boom. The bounty was greater than the cost of breeding a cobra, and the citizens were breeding them to sell to the government.

ypav TIL that some criminals view an NRA sticker on your car as an invitation to break into your house to steal your guns
4X9w5 People like to imagine that they’re the pinnacle of evolution, but the animal kingdom suggests otherwise. The discovery that bumblebees use hair on their legs to detect a flower’s electromagnetic field offers another reminder that human senses don’t always measure up. You share the planet with creatures that can smell veins, see colors you can’t imagine, and communicate through their feet. Here are just a few animals with senses sharper than yours.
oBkKL TIL Little Caesar's makes only $.90 profit per $5 pizza. $3.50 goes to the ingredients and packaging while 60 cents for rent, labor and utilities.
j6rmj TIL that on 9/11 an FBI informant was making a covert recording in WTC 3 and just happened to catch the audio and panic of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center (first plane impact at 1:10:40, second at 1:27:28)
mPvp TIL: Since criminalization of buying sex in Sweden prostitution hasn’t decreased, violence against prostitutes has increased and Sweden now trails virtually all of Western Europe in harm prevention for prostitutes[pdf].