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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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R7kp4 TIL that when drivers began using radar detectors, police forces began purchasing radar detector detectors, which led to radar detector manufacturers adding radar detector detector detector circuits to their devices
4kRAw TIL that there were five cases of bonobos in groups hunting monkeys in Salonga National Park. In three of these, the bonobos ended up eating baby monkeys.
x6ew1 TIL about the ‘My Way Killings’, in which 12 people in the Philippines were killed due arguments around karaoke performances of the Frank Sinatra song. People in the Philippines now avoid the song in karaoke bars.
xVjPB TIL that Metallica was the first band to perform on all seven continents by performing live and un-amplified (to protect the environment) in Antarctica.
BVee TIL Otto von Bismarck once stated that when war came to Europe “it will be some damn fool thing in the Balkans that sets it off” thirty years before Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which kicked off the start of World War One.