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TIL ladybugs can bite people and pinch with their legs

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QJbB9 TIL that one of the ingredients of Worcestershire Sauce use ANCHOVIES
4aPa TIL a Chinese gymnastics champion was abandoned after breaking his Achilles tendon and announcing his intentions to go to school, forcing him to become a homeless beggar. He was arrested for stealing on multiple occasions, rejected by several aid organizations and struggled as a street performer.
rR5P4 TIL of Dipprasad Pun, a Nepalese soldier during the War of Afghanistan who was attacked by 30 insurgents. Believing he was about to die, he expended all 400 rounds of his ammunition, launched 17 grenades, detonated a Claymore mine, and killed an attacker with his tripod, causing them to retreat.
l7j0G TIL that the phrase "forecasting" was invented by Admiral Robert Fitzroy, founder of the Metrological Department (the precursor to the British Met Office) and captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s voyage. He was a Victorian celebrity, nicknamed "The Clerk of the Weather."
gr0yy TIL of the Rio Negro Bridge at Manaus, Brazil, a huge and expensive bridge that is the only crossing point of the Amazon or any major tributary. It has been called "a quintessential bridge to nowhere" and does absolutely nothing to connect Manaus to Brazil's road network