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TIL 5 Of The 10 Deadliest Wars in World History Began In China

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1aLZO TIL recent research argues that fear of spiders has cultural rather biological origins, is predominantly found in Western societies, and comes from an association between spiders and illness that started in the 10th century when the spider was blamed for the devastating epidemics that struck Europe.
E1Kbx TIL the actor who played the kid in The Ring is actually a beast. He got accepted to UCLA at age 13, graduated as valedictorian. Then went on to student law at Harvard. While still acting in movies. Today he is works for the House of Representative as a legal counsel.
p84LG TIL Joseph Stalin banned the field of genetics as capitalistic 'bourgeois pseudoscience', with fatal consequences for many Soviet scientists.
6W9W TIL the state of Mississippi ranked 2nd in charitable giving in 2012, despite having the lowest per capita personal income in all of the US
LRRQ TIL mongooses were introduced to Hawaii to control the invasive rat population. However, rats are nocturnal and mongooses are diurnal. Hawaii now has a problem with both.