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TIL that dragonflies are the most effective predator in the animal world

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xVErD TIL that in the 1900’s, a theater offered a prize of $1,000 to anyone that could make Sober Sue laugh attracting thousands of people who would never succeed. It later came out that Sue suffered from facial paralysis.
6yLZ TIL that there’s a Justice League comic in which a superhero assassinates a Saddam Hussein analogue in order to end the atrocities of his regime. His actions actually end up destabilizing the country, making the quality of life for citizens much worse than it was before. The comic came out in 1999.
XEO1Q TIL following the suicide of a the famous Korean actor Choi Jin-sil the frequency of suicide in Korea increased by 162,2% for 3 weeks confirming the "Werther effect," that a suicide can cause others to also commit suicide
Rew8 TIL that in 1976, during the height of the Cold War, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to the West - taking with him the highly secretive MiG-25 fighter plane.
rNW41 TIL that the last convicted Salem “witch” whose name had yet to be cleared, was officially exonerated just last year. Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was “innocent” of practicing witchcraft as of July 2022.