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TIL Mariesa Weber, a Florida woman who was missing for nearly 2 weeks, was found dead in her own bedroom. After an extensive search, her body was discovered wedged behind a bookshelf. Family members said they believe she fell over as she tried to adjust the plug of a television that was behind it.

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WkKpY TIL quokkas don’t throw their babies at predators like the rumors said. Instead, the mothers will make their kids lay writhing and hissing on the ground to attract predators (while they escape)
kll4 TIL 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are given to farm animals, and 80% of pig farms, sheep farms, and cattle feedlots use low levels of antibiotics in feed and water. Evidence shows staph bacteria can pass from humans to pigs, evolve resistance to antibiotics, and then pass back into humans.
Ogw7 TIL: Iva Toguri, the woman convicted of treason for being Tokyo Rose, lived in Chicago and helped run a family store until her death in 2006 at age 90.
GYb5E TIL John Boyd Dunlop invented the first (practical) pneumatic tyres to help ease the headaches his son experienced after riding his tricycle over the bumpy cobbled streets of Belfast
KdvG TIL: In 1970 Sesame Street was banned in Mississippi because of its racially integrated cast