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TIL dragonflies are the world’s best hunters with a kill rate of up to 95-97% (depending on source). The US military is studying their techniques.

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kO5kW TIL Porn actor James Deen was accused of sexual misconduct by Stoya and other porn actresses Joanna Angel, Tori Lux, Ashley Fires, Kora Peters, Nicki Blur, Lily LaBeau and Bree Olson. As a result several porn companies severed all ties with Deen. He has then been called the "Bill Cosby of porn".
jveQ TIL that Jesse James, the Old American Outlaw, refused to rob a bank in McKinney, Texas because his favorite chili parlor was in town.
KO9n9 TIL that thanks to 3D printing, NASA can basically “email” tools to astronauts
kODa5 TIL in 1948, when Britain started their publicly funded National Health Service (NHS), the American Medical Association (AMA) ran an unprecedented campaign to turn public opinion against a national health service in USA, which had wide spread support at the end of World War 2.
W7dwd TIL: Economist Michael Housman used to data from 30,000 employees to find correlations between their preferred browser and job performance. Employees who used Firefox/Chrome stay 15% longer and were 19% less likely to miss work and had happier customers than employees who used IE or Safari.