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TIL head lice is a different species than pubic lice (crabs)

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xVbYB TIL that the FBI spent years investigating an anti-goth club that didn’t even exist. After a worried goth contacted the FBI, the Bureau launched an official investigation which lasted over 2 years before they realised the whole thing was a joke.
Lk8rV TIL about the Bengal famine of 1942-43, in which the British allowed at least 1.5 million Bengalis to die of starvation. Only when Ian Stephens broke with British censorship and published pictures starving people and bodies did the British start to provide relief.
W7OWo TIL the United States Geological Survey (USGS) uses the term "Gage" instead of "Gauge" because one employee in 1892 reasoned that the term "Gage" was the "proper Saxon spelling," instead of the Norman "Gauge"
eYkJ TIL that when Jerry Garcia was a child his brother cut off his middle finger in an axe accident. He also watched his father drown.
QJND9 TIL Elvis Presley wore a cross, a star of David and the Hebrew letter chai because he didn't want to "miss out on heaven due to a technicality."