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TIL More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks

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6yNY TIL that the word “barbecue” has been around since 1650, and that is has meant “outdoor meal of roasted meat or fish as a social entertainment” since 1733.
JYyjk TIL: Quaker Oats fed radioactive milk and oatmeal to unsuspecting special needs kids under the guise of a science club in order to find out how beneficial certain nutrients were in their oats.
mBBo TIL “scrub” was used as an insult meaning a “mean, insignificant fellow” as far as the 1580s.
aw1NM TIL rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's verse on the hit song "Ghetto Supastar" was the result of him showing up at the wrong studio, loving the song, and asking to be part of it.
kOJwE In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Paula Kahumbu explains how elephants' surprising fear of bees is actually helping to protect them.