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TIL that the USDA deploys cyanide filled “trap” bombs on public land to kill feral dogs and coyotes.

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grAYX TIL researchers discovered the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet, Canaanite, on a head-lice comb believed by scientists to have been made around 1700 BCE. The inscription on the luxury item reads "may this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard."
4kLyw TIL that ladybugs are named after the Virgin Mary. According to legend, Mary sent ladybugs to European farmers in the Middle Ages to protect their crops.
OogLL TIL that the filling inside a Ferraro Rocher is in fact, Nutella. Both are made by the same company.
0mG5 TIL North Korea has opened restaurants in various Asian countries (and reopened one in Amsterdam) as a way to make money for the regime
N70QJ TIL rock star success was once highly regional. In June 1976 Bob Seger played to 78,000 fans in Detroit, only to play to less than 1,000 in Chicago the very next day