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TIL the most complex word in the English language is "run", with 645 possible different meanings.

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nAm9 Today I learned that in 2013 we dropped thousands of parachuting dead mice packed with painkillers onto snakes in Guam.
d8Pmd TIL of an Australian circus family wrongly charged for sexually torturing children as young as three. Victims allegedly had to abuse each other, were cut with knives, had their tongues bitten and needles stuck in their eyes. One of the victims eventually admitted about "lying about the whole thing".
p8b68 TIL The U.S.S. Constitution maintains about 10 to 20 percent of its original wood, including the lower futtocks, keel and the deadwood at the stem and stern.
MeJGA TIL: Rabies Disease produces Hydrophobia ("fear of water"), since the ability to transmit the virus would decrease significantly if the infected individual could swallow saliva and water. Thus, attempts to drink or even suggestion of drinking can cause painful spasms in the throat.
rREBx TIL that Bolaji Badejo, the 6'10 man who played the alien in Alien (1979) didn't audition for the role but was casted by the film's casting agent Peter Ardram, Ardram casted Badejo in a London pub, since he was looking for a tall and thin man to fit the role. This was Badejo's first acting role