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TIL that wasp stings are alkaline but bee stings are acidic

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NyW1 TIL Mr. T Stopped Wearing His Trademark Gold Jewelry Because of His Experience Helping People After Hurricane Katrina “I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”
g59W TIL Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, taught French at Eton to an Eric Blair, who would later go on to use the pen name George Orwell.
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