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TIL There are bugs that look exactly like leaves.

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kOQaB TIL that in 1901 Dorland’s Medical Dictionary defined heterosexuality as an “abnormal or perverted appetite toward the opposite sex.” More than two decades later, in 1923, Merriam Webster’s dictionary similarly defined it as “morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex.”
a89QA TIL After living in London for 14 years, Cillian Murphy moved back to his native Ireland in order to prevent his children from having posh English accents
W7Noo TIL As a more humane form of execution Nevada tried to pump cyanide gas into Jon Gee's cell while he slept. The gas leaked out so in 1924 they built and used on him, the first gas chamber in the USA.
ZpdDB TIL a beehive fence is a fence built to deter elephants based on their natural fear of bees. The fence is set up off the ground at chest height and contains hives spaced every 10 metres. If an elephant disturbs the fence, then hives shake and the bees become agitated, and the elephants are deterred.
aw1JL TIL about Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a Mexican drug lord who escaped from one of Mexico's highest security prisons by having his goons dig a mile long tunnel to his cell, taking over a year.