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TIL of the parasitic botfly which grow under the skin of animals and humans while feeding from their flesh. Once mature, they burst out from the skin of their host.

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awE7Z TIL about the Erikkson twins, sisters who were both knocked down by vehicles on a UK motorway. A TV crew filmed the incidents, and the madness that ensued as one twin stood up and attacked police attending the scene. Days later she stabbed a man to death.
69AZX TIL that the Stasi is widely considered to be the most effective intelligence agency during the Cold War. 1/63 East Germans were collaborators. Including part-time informers, they had an agent for every 6.5 people. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal called them more oppressive than the Gestapo.
Q8G9 TIL that Oscar Wilde’s tomb was encased in glass in 2011, rendering it “kiss proof” after many lipsticked visitors left their marks.
9LJX TIL that a Harvard School of Public Health study found that people who smoke weed tend to have lower levels of insulin, better cholesterol, and smaller waist circumferences than people who don’t smoke weed even after adjusting for things like age, race, alcohol or tobacco use, and activity levels.
X05lR TIL famous baseball player Arthur Irwin committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1928. When he died, two widows emerged. He had been living a double life and was married to two different women in different states unbeknownst to each other.