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TIL Governments can deduce trends of illegal drug use in society by analysing sewage water.

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R5e44 TIL that figs are actually inverted flowers, pollinated by tiny fig wasps that crawl inside to lay eggs, only to die inside the fig, where an enzyme called ficin breaks down their bodies so you never notice.
dWMj TIL in 1806 the fattest man in the world fought a bear in the streets of Leicester.
R1m6 TIL Quicksand alone is considered harmless, and it’s impossible for humans or animals to actually drown in.
R7jMl TIL: The first place to use the Euro as their currency was in Africa. The French island of Reunion adopted the Euro at midnight on 31st December 2001, a few hours ahead of the rest of the Eurozone
7rgJp TIL the London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito, which is more aggressive towards humans than its surface-dwelling relative.