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TIL If wasps decide they don't like you they drop pheromones on you so that other wasps don't like you either.

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Wk6AY TIL that cities with an “erotic services” Craigslist section saw a 17% decrease in the number of women murdered
BrOve TIL that of Canada’s history with slavery. Indigenous people made up TWO THIRDS of the slaves in Canada.
W0Bd TIL Ed McGivern was able to fire five shots at five yards into a silver dollar in 45/100ths of a second, shoot six hand-thrown clays, shoot a dime on the fly and that his Guinness world record for “The greatest rapid-fire feat” still stands (1932).
pvd4 TIL that the Urban Dictionary was uploaded to Watson (Jeopardy AI) and it started swearing
Wvm8 TIL companies such as Google, Lego and Xerox regularly work to avoid the risk of their trademarked names becoming genericized, because if those terms become fully generalized terms for ‘internet search’, 'interconnecting plastic block’ or 'photocopy’, then they could lose those trademarks.