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TIL that there are approximately 100,000 active phone booths still left in the USA

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loWPN TIL that those cute little horns on caterpillars give off a terrible, no good, very bad smell if you try to get the buggers off of your parsley. Also, caterpillars love parsley...
GM9G TIL that the reason spiders’ legs curl when they die is that spiders use the blood pressure spike from their heartbeat to extend their legs out. When they die their heart ceases to beat and their legs curl.
VM0KQ TIL: A Sixth-grader's science fair project discovered that Truvia sweetener is a insecticide
AmVg TIL James Blunt put his sister on eBay as a “damsel in distress” when she couldn’t get to a funeral. the guy who won had a helicopter. He flew her to the funeral. Three years later they were getting married
GANr4 TIL that in 2014 planning permission was granted to turn a disused Victorian building in London’s East End into a “Museum of Women’s History”. Locals were shocked the next year when the museum was unveiled as the “Jack the Ripper Museum”, leading to numerous protests