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TIL there are no Japanese hornets in North Carolina. They are European hornets.

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lbAB TIL that in 480 BC, the Persians’ bridges were destroyed by storms as they invaded Greece. King Xerxes then ordered his men to give the sea three hundred whip lashes, to throw fetters into it and to burn it with red hot irons. Meanwhile, the punishers were to shout “you are a turbid and briny river”
d8JPK TIL a large portion of legacy carrier airlines in the US outsource their flights to regional ones - for example, in 2011 61% of American, United and Delta flights were handled by regional airlines.
eOj5 TIL that self-injury works to reduce emotional pain because of a phenomenon called pain offset relief. “This may be because the physical pain relief that follows a self-injury event basically tricks the brain into perceiving relief of emotional pain too!”
wEY6 TIL at age 16 Sybil Ludington rode twice the distance as Paul Revere to announce the British were coming.
PxyV TIL that around half the posts (51.52%) on the front page are reposts of previosuly overlooked original content