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TIL when someone says they’re allergic to dust, they are actually allergic to the feces left behind by a house dust mite that it secreted onto the dead skin cell.

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grvAX TIL the number of legal board positions in the game Go has been calculated to be far greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe
RrA9 TIL More oil is spilled in the Niger delta every year than was spilled in 2010 by BP in the Gulf of Mexico.
D1x5P TIL that when an Indian Captain was badly wounded in WW2 Burma and thought to be on his deathbed, he was quickly awarded a Military Cross because at the time it couldn't be given posthumously. He survived and became the first Indian to be promoted to Field Marshal.
Z6eo TIL that Leonard Nimoy sings a very interesting song about Bilbo Baggins.
PYvnE TIL a depressed man built a secret room within his bedroom containing a homemade guillotine with a timer, took sleeping pills, and set the timer to kill himself without his father knowing what he was doing for months. He was successful.