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TIL Wasps Can Recognize Faces

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nep7b TIL: Before the invention of toothbrushes, Europeans cleaned their teeth with rags rolled in salt or soot while Indians and Africans chewed on sticks from the Salvadora tree.
90kp TIL China accounts for nearly half the world consumption of instant noodles at 44%
KYJj9 TIL that Louisiana is an observer state of the Francophonie
bb1p TIL: The role of Frodo in a 1981 bbc radio dramatization of LOTR was played by Ian Holm, who went on to appear as Bilbo in Peter Jackson’s films.
XbOj TIL Mark Twain hated Jane Austen with a passion, saying, “Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”.