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TIL Hair straightening chemicals associated with higher uterine cancer risk

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nOd TIL that the Moriori, the native people of the Chatham Islands, embraced pacifism and lived by a code of passive resistance which led to their demise at the hands of Maori invaders after two influential chiefs decided non-violence was not a strategy for survival but a moral imperative
b666Z TIL in Shakespeare's time, onstage special effects included using real animal blood, bones and intestines
b60KZ TIL A horse can be up to 15 horsepower
e07VL TIL while filming a scene in the live action "Jungle Book" where Mowgli meets King Louie (Christopher Walken), director Jon Favreau spotted a cowbell on stage and said, "this is what Mowgli has to use." Mowgli rings the bell to awaken Louie as an hommage to Walken's SNL skit.
X0ar8 TIL that the Ancient Egyptians used Crocodile dung for birth control