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TIL fed up by people frequently urinating against houses, a community in Hamburg's red light district started painting walls with water repellent paint so if someone urinate against the wall, their pee would splash off the surface to their shoes.

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womjE TIL: A key factor of animals belonging to the same species is their ability to produce fertile offspring together. So a Great Dane and a Chihuahua could produce fertile offspring, and a horse and a donkey can have a baby together but their offspring will always be infertile.
9Y4EX TIL muskrats are considered legally fish by the Catholic diocese of southeast Michigan, allowing them to be eaten on Fridays during Lent. When asked about the ruling the local bishop wrote that "anyone who could eat muskrat was doing penance worthy of the greatest of the saints."
9Wvm TIL in 2013 a 27yo Psychology Student, who had already published articles in medical journals, died of a drug overdose while celebrating her new job - working as a drug counselor
PO4G TIL during World War II, Polish doctors Stanislaw Matulewicz and Eugeniusz Lazowski infected Jews with a microbe Proteus OX19, which exhibits symptoms of typhus, which lead Nazi doctors to quarantine and stop deportations in fear of infecting Nazi troops, thus saving thousands of lives.
b9Zlj TIL There was a decade long “war” in Harlan County, Kentucky, to unionize the coal mines. It resulted in many deaths, Several bombings, and three seperates instances of intervention from the National Guard.