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TIL that arctic shrews are so territorial that whenever two are placed together in a cage, one will mysteriously die within a few days

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8eGPL TIL During the Cold War the USA & UK Government Did Human Plutonium testing on Cancer Patients , Pregnant woman and dead babies without the knowledge of anyone
9YKKm TIL of Jia Jiang, a startup founder who set out to overcome his fear of rejection in "100 Days of Rejection." He forced himself to ask strangers for favors with high risk of a "no" such as: Ask to borrow $100; ask for a free "burger refill" at a restaurant. His odd requests sometimes got a "yes."
0BlM TIL that Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day holiday, later became unhappy with its commercialization and began organizing a petition to rescind Mother’s Day. She was placed in a sanitarium, and people connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her there.
VMm6m TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout was created in the early 1870s for typewriters. It was purposely designed to slow the user down so the typewriter keys wouldn't jam. 150 years later, we are still using the same keyboard design even though we don't have to worry about keys jamming.
5W49 TIL of John Joe Gray, a fugitive who has been holed up with his family on a ranch in Texas since 2000. The sheriff has refused to attempt to arrest him for fear of “going up there and getting one of my young deputies killed.”