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TIL: When bug zappers electrocute mosquitos and other insects, they spray a mist containing their body parts up to 2 meters. Some even believe that that residue can transmit the same diseases they carry.

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nW7VW TIL chickpeas are the healthiest bean in the legume family (11g protein and 35g fiber in 1 cup) and also fixes it's own nitrogen from the atmosphere, leaving extra stores of the nutrient in the soil for future crops to consume. Chickpeas can also, under proper farming conditions, sequester carbon.
45Yo TIL of a prisoner, who after getting his sentence reduced from electrocution by the chair, shocked and killed himself with a TV while on his toilet.
wk5W TIL Axl Rose brutally beat and hospitalized his girlfriend, Erin Everly, on numerous occasions. He also, brought a gun when asking her to marriage threatening to kill himself had she declined.
LkWjQ TIL that a Japanese toy company designed a transforming toy of Jesus Christ on the cross, which turns into a mechanized battle robot
PY7L TIL that Will Smith was originally offered the part of Neo in The Matrix but turned it down so he could be in a movie called “The Wild West”.