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TIL That a woman in Ohio was sentenced by a judge to sit in the “smelliest area” of a garbage dump for 8 hours, for neglecting her pet. “If you puke, you puke.”

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NXVaE TIL about medical maggot teabag therapy - Maggot bags are used to clean away dead tissue while ignoring living flesh, while secreting antimicrobial molecules that disinfect the wound. They are proving useful against the rise of bacteria that's resistant to several widely used antibiotics.
7rKbZ TIL Latvia's symbol of national identity is a rare breed of cow with light blue or dark ultramarine hides, dark meat and produce very little milk. Under Soviet times, the cow was considered useless and tried to breed other cow breeds to replace it, nearly driving the blue cow to extinction.
OokY4 TIL Ringworm isn’t actually caused by worms. It’s a fungal infection that got its name because the rash looks like a worm, not because it’s caused by a worm.
OGxw1 TIL: Ukehi is a Japanese Shinto divination ritual that has 6 functions. To kill your enemies, manipulate the weather, animate living beings, predict an outcome, establish the will of kami, or ask for information. Normally it is used to ask a question. If nothing happens, the kami disapproves.
XvZX TIL when the Vanessa Williams Miss America scandal was breaking, Hugh Hefner was offered the nude photos. He turned them down saying “There was never any question of our interest. But they clearly weren’t authorized and because they would cause considerable embarrassment, we decided not to publish.”