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TIL House Termites did make it over to England, but a 27 year government funded programme eradicated them in 2021.

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77jb TIL that Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton, and other British mystery writers formed the Detection Club. Members swore an oath to not use “Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence, or Act of God” in stories. Founded in 1930, the club still exists.
M7rwb TIL after communists overthrew Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, they established the Derg regime that massacred thousands of people in Ethiopia
9wWNB TIL: in 1965, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs were in a limo when Dylan decided to play his new composition, “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window”. Ochs hated it, so Dylan pushed him out the limo and said “You're not a folk singer. You're a journalist."
8ad8Z TIL that 5000 years ago people in what is now Scotland carved intricate baseball sized stone balls in varied shapes and we don't know why.
oKgK TIL that viewers of the Simpsons who were Bart’s age during the first season are Homer’s age now.