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TIL Neonics pesticides introduced to plants at the seed stage act like an appetite suppressant for birds, making them lose weight within hours.

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GAgn5 TIL the female singer on Great Gig in the Sky is a white woman, Clare Torry, who had to sue to get title credits and fair compensation for her work.
KYJaE TIL Abraham Lincoln actually liked the song “Dixie” despite its confederate association. After Richmond was captured he requested a band play it saying “Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it.”
amb0 TIL that in order to prove that an individual marijuana overdose is almost impossible, James Joiner ate 900mg of THC brownies
07yv TIL that for over an hour on February 7th 2008, Comcast accidentally broadcast porn instead of Cartoon Network in Nashville, Tennessee. In another incident, Comcast replaced Disney Channel with hardcore porn for subscribers in Lincroft, New Jersey.
QJLOX TIL Jackie Coogan, the silent film child actor who was famously exploited by his parents for his earnings, found renewed screen success later in life playing Uncle Fester on the Addams Family