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E7jX TIL Komodo dragons are actually venomous rather than, as long thought, poisoning their victims with the bacteria in their saliva. Turns out, according to one researcher, “that whole bacteria stuff has been a scientific fairy tale”. The venom works slowly and makes the victim too weak to fight.
ANKWn TIL that 7Up used to contain lithium (a mood stabiliser used to treat mental health conditions)
78NZP TIL that Richard Harding was hanged in 1805 for forging the tax stamp on the Ace of Spades. At the time, British playing cards were taxed, and this card bore an emblem proving duty paid. Forging it was a capital crime, helping link the Ace of Spades with death.
9YV4p TIL Great Britain sold much of their American investments, and borrowed currency from Wall Street and the American government for the war effort in World War 1 (WWI). In 1931, 4.4 billion USD was still owed. The last payment on that debt was made nearly a century after the war's end, in 2015.
8e60P TIL the 1970s musical sitcom 'The Partridge Family' was inspired by the real-life 1960s family band, The Cowsills, who sang the hit song 'The Rain, The Park, And Other Things', a.k.a. "The Flower Girl".