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TIL It's a myth rats/mice absolutely love cheese, they prefer sweet foods

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d8N4j TIL about the 18th century folk song Maggie May. A prostitute in Liverpool who robs sailors after spending the night with them, Maggie is eventually caught and sent to the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. It's possible the song's story is of a real woman, Nellie Ray, a prostitute and thief.
ALno TIL Wild pigs are one of the most destructive animals in America causing more than $400mil damage a year in TX alone. They can dig 3’ deep destoying crops and even feast on lambs, calves, sea turtle eggs, and everything in between.
Rm68 TIL After Fighter pilot Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr. flew the longest interception mission of WWII to shoot down and kill the Admiral responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, he broke radio silence to tell everybody “That son of a bitch will not be dictating any peace terms in the White House”.
MPG8 TIL: There is an actual nutritional label and serving size for a man’s ejaculate.
kJxAg TIL The Yellowstone National Park is on top of a caldera, which is a volcano that explodes so powerfully and immediately that everything around falls into the hole created, thus you are vacationing inside the top of volcano, but it looks flat and not like a "normal" shield volcano.