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TIL of a company making an alternative to rat poison for large populations. Instead of killing those that ingest the product, it makes a percentage of them sterile.

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Y7xaG TIL Author Paek Nam-nyong is a household name in North Korea and his bestseller novel "Friend" became the first state-sanctioned novel available to English readers
Zp4ZR TIL Research shows that experiencing chronic loneliness is as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and worse than obesity. It’s associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease and stroke, and increases our likelihood of early mortality by 26 per cent.
jNxVn TIL the vast majority of auto insurance claims are processed through a software called Colossus, created by McKinsey, was systematically designed to increase a company's bottom line profit margins and to screw out consumers...
yYJV TIL:The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and didn’t get killed during the movie
Oob67 TIL that the rarest insect in the world is the Lord Howe Island stick insect. It was believed to be extinct since 1920 until some were found again in 2001. In 2006 there were only about 50 of them, but only 2 years later their population increased to 700!