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TIL the French term for Brass Knuckles is “poing américain”, which literally translates to “American fist”

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xVlEk TIL Mosquitoes prefer O-type blood, people with high body heat, pregnant women and heavy breathers. Many of these reasons are because mosquitoes can sense carbon dioxide (CO2) from up to 100 feet away. Which is a reason why they circulate around our heads where we exhale CO2.
b9Z8Z TIL that certain male birds of paradise have “superblack” feathers that absorb as much as 99.95% of light
9wkgG TIL: The POWs who met with Jane Fonda in 1972 have confirmed that they never handed her slips, and the one man routinely mentioned never met Jane Fonda. It has been debunked as early as 1975.
0g45 TIL that the palm plant most commonly known as the GIVE AND TAKE in Belize, Chrysophila argentea, Has an anti-coagulant poison in it’s needle like bark. The only known remedy to stop the bleeding and infection is the sap located underneath the bark itself.
LQO0m TIL that the Simpsons episodes "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" and "Burns, Baby Burns" were originally conceived as a single episode where Grampa and Mr. Burns are revealed to have fallen in love with the same woman while they were fighting in World War II, and the woman had a love child.