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TIL That spotting a “Masked Hunter” bug is almost always a sign that you have bedbugs!

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ROM7 TIL that Germany completed its WWI reparation repayment in 2010, 92 years after the end of the war.
LQYKv TIL that a French woman was not allowed to stay in Canada because she could not prove she spoke the French language. Emilie Dubois received her doctorate from a French-speaking university in Quebec. Permanent residency was denied because one chapter in her thesis was in English.
mpM TIL many of us are genetically predisposed to hate cilantro.
8pZK TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger’s only advice to James Cameron regarding turning the killer robot into the good guy for ‘Terminator 2’ was “Just don’t make me gay.”
9YM1D TIL that the young Michael Faraday, who would go on to become one of the most influential scientists of all time, was inspired at the age of 14 by a book he found that was written by a woman named Jane Marcet. The book was one she had written on chemistry, with the content adapted for women.