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TIL: The children’s book series, “The Magic Treehouse” was adapted into an anime film in 2011

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grKvA TIL that bed bugs were first mentioned in ancient Greece as early as 400 BC, and later by Aristotle. Bean leaves have been used historically to trap bedbugs in houses in Eastern Europe. The trichomes on the bean leaves capture the insects by impaling their feet. The leaves are then destroyed.
Zp9dY TIL of Dr. Farrokhroo Parsa, physician, women's right's activist, and Pahlavi Iran's first female cabinet minister. She was executed for "prostitution" after the Islamic revolution: "I am prepared to receive death with open arms rather than live in shame by being forced to be veiled."
R5D76 TIL in the Netherlands there is a chain of restaurants called 'Brownies & Downies'. The majority of the work force has Down syndrome (link in Dutch).
ODwa TIL That Wired’s Editor once took over all the telephone lines for LA’s radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller, and winning a Porsche 944 S2.
VMm7Z TIL of Gabe Sonnier, a man who started off as a janitor in a Louisiana elementary school until one day in 1985, when he was inspired by the then-principal to take up teaching. Gabe was 39 years old when he started studying for a teaching degree. He’s now the principal of that elementary school.