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TIL female dogs are bitches, but female cats are queens

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MX6B TIL that the fibonacci sequence can be used to roughly convert between miles and kilometers. If the nth term is a number of miles, the nth+1 term is roughly how many kilometers it is.
5V1Mk TIL Naphthalene, a chemical used in mothballs, can cause poisoning through ingestion, inhalation, or skin contact. Termites can also produce naphthalene to protect their nests. Symptoms of exposure range from headaches and nausea to hemolytic anemia, where red blood cells are destroyed.
kO0Z4 TIL the ancient Greeks had a democratic process to nominate and vote to send any citizen away for 10 years. Like the opposite of an election.
W7BO4 TIL after hearing her employer and lover who admired the Marquis de Sade claim that a woman couldn't write an erotic novel; writer Anne Desclos wrote one that was both massively successful and caused the government to pursue obscenity charges because of the sadomasochistic themes therein.
4XP9o TIL that 60% of the worlds footballs are made in one city, Sialkot in Pakistan