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TIL The smell of cut grass is an SOS calling beneficial insects like parasitic wasps to help resist plant attacks

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j6pR TIL That China produces stamina enhancement pills that are 99.7% ground up dead babies.
9wnK7 TIL about Typhoon Yunya which hit the Philippines on 15 June 1991 coincided with the eruption of Mt Pinatubo.Most of the ash was blown to the west southwest over an area across the South China Sea; ash dusted parts of Indochina, more than 1,200 km away.It claimed 847 deaths & caused $700M in damages
Lo9V TIL when the head of The Piratebay, Peter Sunde, was arrested he asked to phone his girlfriend so she could lock the doors of his house before going with the policeman. The policeman said yes. Instead, he pushed a button on an app that immediately encrypted all servers of The Piratebay.
7Vrx TIL during WW2, trained elephants at a zoo in Tokyo were starved to death. Throughout the ordeal, they repeatedly performed their tricks in fruitless attempts to get fed.
Vdbk TIL Draco, an Athenian law-maker in 620 BC, was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens