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TIL That Crocodile Poop was used for Birth Control in Ancient Egypt

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WkQa4 TIL that the Count in Sesame Street does not count all the time to teach children numbers! In folklore, vampires had arithmomania, or an obsession with numbers. This derives from the old superstition that throwing poppy seeds on the ground stopped vampires because they had to count them all first.
jrNa TIL that a man on the internet convinced a large number of people he was a time traveler
5X9k TIL that Venezuela was the first country in the world to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, doing so by Constitution in 1863.
JYdOQ TIL that since 2008, every single winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee has been from Indian origin.
yEl TIL that in Japan, “The Jersey Shore” airs under the name “Macaroni Rascals”