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TIL: Some wasps make honey

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9g76 TIL that a paedophile had a brain tumor removed and with it, his paedophillic tendencies. When the tumor grew again in the same spot, his paedophile urges grew once more, and disappeared once again after the second growth was surgically removed.
8GXZ TIL that in 1943 hundreds of Aryan women gathered in Berlin to protest the mass arrest and consequent imprisonment of their Jewish husbands by the Gestapo. Following a week of protesting, night and day, they won their husbands’ freedom.
j6Gbv TIL in order to inform shoppers in Mexico about poor nutritional content in prepackaged foods, the law states that packages containing foods with excess levels of calories, sugars, saturated fat, or containing caffeine or sweeteners must be labeled with large octagonal warnings exposing these facts.
oBdvR TIL Owney the dog became world famous in late 1800s for traveling the USA and the world as the beloved mascot for the railway post service. He became a good luck charm because no train he rode on got in an accident. Wherever he went, people hung tags on his harness, which he brought home regularly.
ZZQY TIL that Paul Thomas Anderson dropped out from the NYU’s film program beacuse he handed in some of Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s work as his own and got it graded a “C”.