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TIL that NYC approved the use of rat birth control to curb its rat population

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mxVAE TIL Planned Obsolescence Is A Legal Policy Used Among Corporations That Suggests Intentional Manufacturing Of Nondurable Products
e5Q5 TIL Carlos Mencia was dropped from a New Orleans charity event after saying, “I’m glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: Black people can’t swim.”
6EZJX TIL that Spanish explorers originally called pecans "wrinkle nuts."
YndZ TIL that pirates wore eye patches so they could keep one eye adjusted to the darkness below the deck of the ship. If they had to quickly run back and forth between the upper and lower decks, they could just flip the eye patch up or down.
gMb8D TIL scattered around Roopkund Lake in the Indian Himalaya are the bones of about 800 people who seemingly died in a single unkown event in 800 AD. Newer studies reveal that some of the bones belong to another group of people who also died in a single event. Except a thousand years after the others.