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TIL that monarch butterflies migrate up to 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico, the longest migration of any insect.

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W7BM9 TIL that many U.S. states secretly obtain the drugs used in lethal injections from small compounding pharmacies whose identities are hidden by state secrecy laws. These drugs are produced under less federal oversight, resulting in variable quality, and sometimes leading to botched executions.
W7YOd TIL That until 2001 many costumed workers at Disney parks had to wear communal underwear. This resulted in several cases of pubic lice and scabies doing the rounds of employees.
W8wN TIL Joseph Stalin ordered the development of a half man half ape, the creature would be resilient to to pain beyond a normal man and would not care about the quality of food given. When Stalins top scientist failed to do so, he had him executed.
mxaPE TIL the character of Oliver in novel and movie Love Story, is partly based on Tommy Lee Jones who author Erich Segal met at Harvard. Jones plays one of Oliver's roommates in the 1970 film
e0kWD TIL of the Lizardman Constant, which basically says that 4% of polling data is worthless due to people either being insane or deliberately corrupting your data