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TIL Beetles are the most diverse order of life on our planet and have been around since the days of Pangaea.

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nWkQP TIL Bach liked to sneak his name into his music
GZlj TIL that the average IQ has been going up. If a typical person from 1910 time-transported to the present, they would have a mean IQ of 70, which is at the border of mental retardation.
0yJN TIL George Washington died when his doctors tried to cure his epiglottitis (i.e. inflamed throat) with blood letting. He lost more than half his blood before they stopped the treatment, and died just hours later.
R7QM9 TIL: Of Rotary Jails, huge rotating carosel like jails that would "store" inmates in a large machine that would rotate to let them in and out. They were phased out partially due to inmates limbs being sheared off by the rotation.
xVOOD TIL that during WWI, the Germans tried to convince the Allied soldiers at Dunkirk to surrender using propaganda leaflets dropped from the air. The soldiers used these leaflets as toilet paper.