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TIL pinworms live in the gut but their eggs have to be eaten and hatch in the lower intestine. So at night they peek out the anus, causing people to itch themselves while sleeping, later transferring them to the mouth. 1/2 the world population has had them.

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OGxDL TIL that, on 2 October 1766, a riot started an Nottingham's Goose Fair when locals began looting and hundreds of cheese wheels were rolled through the streets. The military were deployed to keep order and opened fire on the crowds. The event is known as the Great Cheese Riot.
rkv1 TIL: The most expensive yacht in the world is a gold-plated super-yacht worth $4.5 billion USD. It comes complete with a statue made from the bone of a T-Rex dinosaur
16J5D TIL the UK's official business register Companies House doesn't check if the poeple behind the company registration actually exist. Searching the register turns up business owners with names like "Donald Duck" and "Adolf Tooth Fairy Hitler".
9n6r TIL If you throw in overtime, garbage collectors can make up to $85,000 a year in the United States.
AwP7 TIL that ancient Assyrian soldiers reportedly suffered hauntings and visions of the men they killed in battle, suggesting the earliest written example of PTSD sufferers.