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TIL of Nyotaimori, the Japanese practice of eating sushi off naked women

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XBAk TIL: You don’t have to be an attorney to be considered for appointment to the SCOTUS
ng1r TIL in the US, more intelligent people tend to be more liberal or libertarian while in places like Brazil, more intelligent people tend to vote for more centrist parties.
d80LB TIL To treat a malaria outbreak in Borneo, the WHO used DDT to kill mosquitoes. DDT killed wasps which were eating thatch-eating caterpillars who were eaten by geckoes & eaten by cats, who died, which led to rats, plague, & typhus. WHO had to parachute 145,000 cats into the area to kill the rats.
jx8n TIL The Golden Temple of India feeds over 100,000 people a day no matter who they are, where they come from, or their race.
YpgbB TIL about the Gympie Gympie bush (or “Suicide Tree”). It delivers a sting described as “like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time”. One man was stung and after 3 weeks of agony, was driven “as mad as a cut snake”. Another shot himself after using the leaves as toilet paper.