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TIL Ancient Egyptians domesticated the hyena and used it as a food source.

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LWAr TIL that a psychologist conducted an experiment on how to make two strangers fall in love in 34 minutes. And two subjects got married afterwards!
E1WmX TIL - The world's most dangerous race takes place on the 'ISLE OF MAN' (260 deaths)
xKGg TIL that body hair doesn’t stop growing at a certain length; it just lives a shorter life and falls out before the hair on your head.
6E6gw TIL The earliest e-cigarette can be traced to American Herbert A. Gilbert, who in 1963 patented "a smokeless non-tobacco cigarette" that involved "replacing burning tobacco and paper with heated, moist, flavored air". This device produced flavored steam without nicotine.
rjMx TIL that an Israeli peanut snack called bamba, which is eaten at an early age within Israel greatly reduces the chance of the child having peanut allergies, and studies with high risk children showed that eating bamba made child’s chances of contracting an allergy 5 times less than avoiding them.