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TIL: Orange peels helped revive a Costa Rican forest

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0dbp1 TIL: Sōhei warrior monks were influential for centuries in Japan with warring clans often enlisting these monks for warfare due to their fighting ability due to their isolation and fanaticism. However, disputes between monk temples were common which led to numerous fatal inter temple battles.
V7pm TIL that the term “grandfathered in” originated from Jim Crow laws which allowed men to be exempt from literacy tests and poll taxes if their grandfather was eligible to vote prior to 1866, effectively ensuring many illiterate white men could still vote, while black men couldn’t.
xV5Vw TIL: In 2010, Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay as his address. When he tried to tell them that Fort Gay actually exists in West Virginia, it took an appeal from the town’s mayor for it to be corrected.
bbp7 TIL that Ben Sliney, the man that ordered all commercial planes to be grounded on 9/11, did so on his first day on the job.
W7VO9 TIL that The aardwolf, a member of the hyena family, feeds mainly on termites and has teeth adapted for eating them, which are not capable of chewing meat.