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TIL that the QWERTY keyboard is deliberately a very inefficient way of typing

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wky6 TIL the slow loris is the world’s only venomous primate; it sucks the venom from a patch in it’s elbow before giving a lethal bite.
N7kbM TIL Bulls are colorblind, and can't see the color red, it is the movement that angers them during matador fights. The reason behind the color red is so that the blood spilled is less visible.
v1Mw8 TIL the easily identifiable USPS mail trucks lack air conditioning, anti-lock brakes, and even airbags
BE7L TIL When Brahms was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1881, he strung together 4 popular student drinking songs into a symphony as a sarcastic thank you and premiered the song as the conductor at a special convocation.
BrnWk TIL about Madame Popova who operated a murder-for-hire service in Russia that specialized in liberating married women from their cruel husbands for a fee. She murdered over 300 victims, by using poison, her own hands, a weapon, or hiring an assassin.