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TIL Americas first public crucifixion will take place tomorrow

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yQ0Gv TIL that the sound doves make when taking off/landing isn’t from their beak, but rather from their wing tips
EgDkW TIL that 70% of all recyclable plastic in the US was recycled in China until 2017, when they cut off imports of plastic waste from the US and EU. Today, the vast majority of it ends up in landfills.
ZQwG TIL 1/3rd of people in developed countries are infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which causes lower reaction times, higher testosterone production, and more masculine/dominant faces. It is believed that it changes its host to increase the probability transmission to a new host.
m9Kv TIL of Unit 684 an expendable South Korean black-ops team of 31 convicted criminals whose mission was to kill North Korea’s premier Kim Il-sung
7rpPp TIL the word 'grenade' comes from the French word for pomegranate whose outer appearance and seeds resemble a grenade and its fragments