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TIL ladybugs can get std’s

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yVQ8a TIL Yellowstone National Park allows visitors to spread loved one's ashes over the park via airplane
b9w5E TIL about a French chemist named Bertrand, who drank 5 grams of arsenic trioxide (a very poisonous substance) mixed with activated charcoal, just to demonstrate the adsorptive properties of activated charcoal and survived.
w0G6 TIL that the word ‘mortgage’ comes from Old French, meaning 'death pledge’
DLeg TIL 107 million spiders invaded a factory and covered every surface with heavy sheets of web.
epyYL TIL that despite the blue-ringed octopus's deadly reputation, they have only managed to kill sixteen people so far.