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TIL More than 2 billion people eat insects daily.

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b6yj0 TIL the creator of the children's game series Putt Putt, Shelley Day, went to prison for fraud in 2005.
9Y8rm TIL psychologists recognise "the need for drama" (NFD) as a personality trait. High NFD individuals agree with statements like, "Sometimes it’s fun to get people riled up”.
6E0eW TIL that to reduce infanticide, Sweden passed a law in 1778 allowing unwed pregnant women to go to a different area where she is unknown to give birth. The midwife was forbidden to ask her identity or to ask who the father was. The baby was then put in an orphanage.
jNxOE TIL underwater basket weaving has been used as a pejorative term for excessively easy/useless/niche courses for at least the past 65 years
6yxm TIL that the U.S. Army has a list of approved laundry detergents. These detergents do not contain optical whiting compounds, which would cause laundered uniforms to glow in UV light, and stick out in night-vision imaging.