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TIL Prisoners are being used in place of migrant farm workers.

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woZGW TIL that Dave Scott who commanded Apollo 15, orchestrated a prank to replace photos inside the instruction booklets which contained tasks which had to be followed with pictures of topless playboy models that Astronauts Alan Bean and Pete Conrad were to use.
yQAba TIL that numbats are insectivorous marsupials native to Western Australia. They mainly eat termites. Unlike most marsupials, numbats don’t have pouches. Instead, their young clamp onto teats on the mother’s belly and stay there for five months. They can have up to 4 young at once.
WkNOB TIL Wagner-Jauregg (1927) managed to cure syphilis by infecting the patient with malaria. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Z8RJB TIL that besides the common fact that lobsters pee from their head, female lobsters will pee at the den of a potential mate to beguile them into letting her move in. Once she trusts the male lobster, she will shed her shell and her pouch containing sperm from a previos mate.
N7ebM TIL that 30+ minutes of running 5 days a week has been linked to 9 years of less aging on the cellular level