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TIL in Japan people eat fried maple leaves as a snack

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xVJPb TIL about Archie "The Greek" Karas, a gambler who turned $50 into $40M and lost it all in a year
OGZ9g TIL Catherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII, was the first woman to publish an original work under her own name, in English, in England. After publishing her first book anonymously, she published Prayers or Meditations under her own name in 1545, during her time as Queen consort.
l7OL5 TIL that cricket was played at the 1900 Paris Olympics. Only Great Britain and France competed, with Britain winning Gold. The French team mainly consisted of British expatriates living in France.
Y7VQr TIL The cute looking pygmy slow lorises are the only known venomous primate. Modified sweat glands near their elbows allow pygmy slow lorises to secrete a toxin. When they’re alarmed, they can lick these glands, spreading the toxin to their teeth, able to incapacitate predators as large as humans
BgKeD TIL ducks are well known to turn cannibalistic when bored. It has been well documented to be aggravated by overcrowding, lack of ventilation and faulty nutrition. The only known way to stop it is to remove the rim at the front of the bird’s upper bill through a process known as beak-trimming.