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TIL that in New York subways, booth attendants would sprinkle chili powder in coin slots to stop people from “coin sucking”

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APJd TIL In December 2009, a campaign launched on Facebook made Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the Name” the number-one single in the UK for Christmas, which had been dominated for four consecutive years from 2005 by winners from the popular TV show The X Factor.
DL5P TIL Pavlov’s dogs were eaten during the Siege of Leningrad by famished researchers
lox17 TIL At 8 years old, during a chicken dinner with family,Jeffrey Dahmer expressed a curiosity to his father of how to bleach chicken bones. His chemist father was proud of his son’s scientific curiosity so he showed him how to safely bleach and preserve the bones, which he used on his later victims
6EpvJ TIL that NASA has a fire alert system that you can subscribe too for a area of interest. Protecting people against wild fires!
kO8Gm TIL Two-headed snakes struggle to thrive in the wild because the two heads “argue” with each other, thus making them vulnerable to predators