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TIL: Lobsters pee out of their face to display their dominance.

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pYvJ4 TIL that in the 18th century medical professionals used tobacco smoke enemas to treat ailments from the cold to cholera. Before the use of bellows became the norm the people administering the procedure needed to be careful if they started coughing and accidentally inhaling enema particulates.
YpvWv TIL there is a small area of Upstate New York that is actually east of Vermont, outside the town of Whitehall, New York in Washington County. The boundary is the Poultney River, with Vermont on the west side, and New York on the east.
Oo4rX TIL that during World War I, Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming's Secret Intelligence Service agents adopted the motto 'Every man his own stylo', after discovering that they could use semen as invisible ink.
wojAP TIL that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two largest center's of Christian population in Japan during WWII. The atomic bombing in Nagasaki killed 66% of the Christians in the city.
v15j7 TIL Lula oil field in Brazil is considered to be the western hemisphere's largest oil discovery of the last 30 years.