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nerYd TIL that in 2001, researchers removed 2055 brown recluse spiders from a single Kentucky Home. No one living there was ever envenomed
rRxdM TIL a 1000 year old bronze buckle from East Asia was discovered in Alaska, showing that indigenous people in North America might have been interacting with the Old World earlier than previously thought
l7oG1 TIL that overuse of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can cause spinal cord injury by inactivating vitamin B12. Numbness, weakness, and even sexual dysfunction are common symptoms. Taking B12 preventatively before nitrous use is ineffective as no matter how much B12 is present, it is all ‘turned off’.
xDGg TIL that in at least one naval battle, Hannibal of Carthage had clay pots filled with venomous snakes and instructed his sailors to throw them onto the decks of enemy ships.
v11R8 TIL FDA has banned the use of microplastic in rinse-off cosmetics.