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TIL Oneida Silverware company started as a free love commune in upstate New York

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Vwa4 TIL that female bedbugs don’t have vaginas and that male bedbugs have to make one with a razor-like penis to breed
JZB8 TIL that the ‘fuel efficiency’ of walking is roughly equivalent to 360 miles per gallon.
eWnE TIL in the early 1800s the British adopted the Nine Principle of Ethical Policing, under which “Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police.“ They also don’t carry guns.
l76W7 TIL Lonely parrots can be taught to call their buddies.
49mb TIL - The National Forest Service tested whether or not bears were attracted to menstruating women by measuring wild bears’ responses to either tampons or to four menstruating women. “Menstrual odors were essentially ignored by [all] black bears.”