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TIL about a jewish tradition where couples are wed in a cemetary to combat plagues

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kO4N5 TIL that the tale of Hansel and Gretel might have originated during the Great Famine of 1315 - 17. Food was in such short supplies that people abandoned their kids (probably why Hansel and Gretel are lost in a forest) and that people even resorted to cannibalism (explains the cannibalistic witch)
Je74 TIL by eating herbivores with seeds in their stomachs and then leaving scat across a large range, cougars are able to plant around 94,000 plants a year.
rNwL0 TIL of Murderers Row, a group of ethnic minority boxers in the 1940’s, who were considered too dangerous to be given a world championship opportunity.
6WP7 TIL that Mozilla is a non-profit community which develops free software in order to advance the goals of the Open Web
5eWn TIL A woman once called 911 because her ex boyfriend was threatening her with a knife and after three hours of no police showing up and having to repeatedly call 911 the dispatcher ended the call by saying “I really don’t give a shit what happens to you”