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TIL Lysol was advertised as a method of birth control (via douching), leading to several deaths

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new9G TIL Hummingbirds get their iridescent colors from microscopic "air-filled pancakes" in their feathers.
Ze4R TIL; The inventor of the baseball glove, Canadian Arthur Irwin, created the glove after breaking two fingers on his left hand. When he died, it was discovered that he had two families unbeknownst to each other. One in Boston and the other in New York
6LZ7 TIL that during the 2014 Thai coup d'etat, sandwiches were used as an anti-coup symbol, and a group of students were charged with “possessing sandwiches with ill intent”.
rBye TIL Ben Affleck Said Daredevil ‘Humiliated’ Him, Vowed Never To Play Another Superhero
Bg4JK TIL Clever Hans, a horse, who performed various mathematical, musical, and language tasks, like arithmetic operations, telling the time, differentiating between musical tones, and understanding and spelling German. He is thought to have been eaten by hungry soldiers in WW1 after being drafted.