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TIL ants evolved from wasps

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4OYw TIL that it’s not just video games that people have blamed for the actions of children. In 1979 and 1990, it was Dungeons and Dragons.
gr0mD TIL in order to look strung out Charlie sheen stayed up for 2 days straight to achieve his role in Ferris bueller’s day off
LBKr TIL that in ancient Rome the punishment for parricide, killing one’s own parent(s), was to be whipped repeatedly and then sewn up in a leather sack along with a serpent, a dog, a rooster and a monkey. The sack was then thrown into a river.
v1EZr TIL Tom and Jerry have won seven Academy Awards
gM4BA TIL about the Turnspit dog, which was bred specifically to run on a wheel that turns meat over a fire. They are now extinct