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TIL most receipts use toxic ink that gets absorbed through skin contact

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4XmJJ TIL acts of bestiality appear several times in European cave art, with the oldest depiction being from a cave in Portugal dating back to the Paleolithic period.
np19 TIL North and South Dakota are two different states because they couldn’t agree on where the capital should be.
VMlaZ TIL During World War 2, morale among the British Army (in desert campaigns) was directly proportional to the supply of tea that they had. This was due to them brewing it all the time in order to drink the foul-tasting water they were supplied with, as it came from fuel cans.
1b8r TIL After mature male bull elephants are sent off to fend for themselves they do not become lone wanderers detached from any community. The males travel together, drink together and form friendships that, like human relationships, may change with the seasons or last a lifetime.
XEYAQ TIL that the sound used when planes are going down and crashing in films is the sound of a siren fitted onto a Nazi dive bomber. The siren was fazed out towards the end of the war since the siren had considerable drag and the pilots hated having to listen to the whine during the entire flight.