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EgOmW TIL Unopened Lego sets have a higher return than gold.
ny5o TIL when a flea is infected by Y.pestis (Black Death/plague), the bacteria build up and form a film that blocks the flea’s esophagus. After it bites a host, the flea cannot eat until it has vomited up this blockage, spreading a concentrated dose of the bacteria to its target.
kOVWW TIL St. Patrick was never officially canonized by the Catholic church
NMk6 TIL there is an inmate in Britain who has single handedly shut down an entire prison facility, does up to 3,000 press ups a day as part of his daily workout, has bent cellar bars with his bare hands, and has arguably the gnarliest moustache I’ve seen.
OGJ8Y TIL in 2003 the German government tried to ban far-right political party NPD but failed because the government informants in the party had written too much of the material used against them in the trial