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TIL that Toxoplasmosis, a parasite affecting cats and mice, removes mice fear of cats. This allows the mice to be eaten by cats, thus transmitting the parasite to the cat and completing its life cycle.

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E196w TIL in 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant after they spread surströmming brine, the world's smelliest food, in the building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled in favor of the landlord after they demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom.
6Eygm TIL Sexwork was legal in the state of Rhode Island until 2009. Despite claims that majority of people want the laws affecting sexwork to become loosened, the only major change in the last 30 years was to make sexwork illegal in the only state outside Nevada that allowed it.
Zkka TIL The total value of unused store gift cards in the USA is over $44billion.
0le5 TIL Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf (4 ft 0.25 in at age 18) and a giant (7 ft 8 in at age 51).
Y7OWx TIL about Robert Morris, who went from becoming the richest man in the United States (and Senator), to living in a debtors prison for 3 years.