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TIL the owner of Ray’s Sausages spent $30,000 to combat the foul smell said to be coming from his sausage shop. It was then discovered that the smell was coming from next door, where a serial killer had stored the rotting corpses of his victims

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E1850 TIL Of Alfred Kroeber who studied a man he named Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe who walked into the modern world in 1911. In Ishi's culture, knowing ones name gives you power over them, so Ishi just means Man. This idea of magic in naming things influenced Kroeber's daughter Ursula Le Guin.
LQjJ9 TIL four Canadian comedians pretended to be involved in an affair between a married man and his babysitter, in order to get on the Jerry Springer Show. Springer sued them, settling for $10, which was delivered as coins.
ADQDo TIL that Queen termites can live up to 50 years and can 'permit' secondary reproductives (females) to create satellite nests for the colony, but can also chemically block reproduction for the entire colony at any time if she chooses.
6959m TIL the first computers were humans, most of whom were women. A person performing mathematical calculations, before the widespread use electronic computers, was ascribed the term computer. From 1865 onwards, women composed a considerable proportion of these human computers, playing a pivotal role.
6EGWJ TIL most of the Founding Fathers were likely Deists and not Christians, but saw organized religion as a useful tool for governing the masses