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TIL In Russia there is a city called Sverdlovsk, where about 100 factory workers died in 1979 after a filter was removed and not replaced at a neighbouring military factory producing Anthrax spores

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GYMO5 TIL that a group of Black-capped Chickadees is called a banditry of chickadees, referring to the mask-like appearance of the species.
1JYP TIL that both corn flakes and graham crackers were created in hopes that their bland flavor would act as a sexual sepressant.
QJGyX TIL that the NY Subway has the most stations of any metro system in the world.
9wpEQ TIL India faces 50 year cycles of rat floods. The cycle is driven by the flowering cycle of bamboo that produces excesses of seeds that increase the rat population. The last mautam (Melocanna baccifera driven event) occured 2007-8 and the next thingtam (Bambusa tulda driven) is to occur in 2025-6.
DNWJ TIL During WWI, Dominic “Fats” McCarthy was awarded the Victoria Cross after he, virtually unaided, killed 22 Germans, captured 5 machine guns, 50 prisoners, and half a kilometer of the German front. When it was over even the prisoners he’d captured patted him on the back for what he’d done.