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TIL The Japanese Giant Hornet is woven from the fabric of nightmares: It’s the size of your thumb and sprays flesh-melting poison in your eyes that also has a pheromone cocktail in it that’ll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you to death

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9kAp TIL that there is a drug, called DNP, which causes the human body to effectively burn body fat at an extremely fast rate. The downside? Most of the energy stored in the fat is released as heat when it is metabolized. Take too much DNP and you will literally cook yourself to death.
R1a6 TIL in 1988 British politician Edwina Currie was forced to resign after incorrectly stating that British eggs were tainted with salmonella. A few months later a government report found she was actually correct, but it was covered up until 2001.
YjBP TIL that while planning his comeback in Las Vegas in 2007, Michael Jackson wanted to build a 50 foot tall robot replica of himself that would roam the desert under the flight paths of incoming planes, shooting lasers out of its eyes in order to get the attention of the tourists flying into the city.
loBXB Today I learned that Mel Brooks rigged up an extra finger for himself when he made his hand print in front of the Chinese Theater.
OpWe TIL Bruce Lee Once Said He Thought Muhammad Ali Would “Kill” Him in a Fight