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TIL figs are not vegetarian

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wo58Y TIL that President Andrew Jackson befriended a family of white mice in his bedroom. While his daughter tried to eradicate them with poison and traps, he fed them with grain from his mill business.
EoYW TIL the idea of a wolfpack being dominated by an aggressive “alpha” is misunderstood. Packs are family units, and the alphas are simply the parents of the other wolves.
5V5Lk TIL that the MTR, Hong Kong's public transit system, has a 99.9% on-time rate, meaning 999 out of 1,000 passengers arrive at their destination within 5 minutes of their scheduled time
0wExv TIL Parisians used to "hang out" in the morgue situated near the Notre Dame de Paris. The macabre attraction used to lure as many as 40.000 visitors per day. There were even street vendors catering to the crowds waiting outside to take a peek at the corpses.
e0mLE TIL that the Code of Hammurabi, while notorious for its eye for an eye punishments and the removal of body parts of the guilty party, was also one of the earliest pieces of written law to have it a requirement for an innocent person to be assumed innocent until proven guilty