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TIL that bug spray doesn’t actually repel bugs, it masks your scent so they don’t find you as easily

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eyeL TIL that German children are taught the dangers of misbehavior through traumatic stories. These include a child having his thumbs cut off for thumbsucking and a girl who burns to death for playing with matches
n8xY TIL in the original novel Dracula, Count Dracula could turn into a wolf.
R5rBa TIL There's research done how to best 'call your cat', it's using visual cues combined with specific tone of speech.
16ak8 TIL Some teen thieves were made to dress up as Flintstones characters as punishment for stealing a Flintmobile replica from a comic book store
5VgVk TIL John Wilkes Booth father, Junius Brutus Booth, wrote many letters in fits of drunken anger and madness to President Andrew Jackson threatening assassination.