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TIL insecticide laced cotton balls are placed in the wild for mice to collect for nests to control tick populations.

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OoWDX TIL Rick Wakeman started to wear capes onstage in order to hide the weird way he moved while operating footpedals, which a journalist said made him look like a demented spider. In some countries now, a show organiser will write into his contract that he must wear a cape
BLNb TIL The word “bully” was first used in the 1530s meaning “sweetheart”. The meaning deteriorated through the 17th century through “fine fellow”, “blusterer”, to “harasser of the weak”
a8pAN TIL undelivered letters from 313AD were discovered in the ruins of a NW Chinese watchtower—one is from a desperate Sogdian (ancient central Asian people) woman named Miwnay, addressed to her husband who brought her to China & left. She & her daughter, now poor, then became servants in a Chinese home
Z8pJa TIL Babies were born without bones in the Marshall Islands following the testing of nuclear bombs by the United States in the 1950's
EYYV TIL that Shakespeare really enjoyed the word “cunt” and used many euphemisms for genitalia in his work.