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TIL in 2005, the British Medical Journal published a study to investigate the loss of workplace teaspoons

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Eyyx TIL that because of its prison system, the US is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.
XJK6 TIL that in WW2, Poland had an officially enlisted bear in its army that would give ammo to troops.
QNDna TIL that "Hero Rats" can be used as a failsafe to check for tuberculosis at a rate of 100 samples per twenty minutes, a task that takes human microbiologist four days.
OGgbX TIL that before the 1959s bedbugs were found in >30% of American homes. Numbers dropped due to use of DDT but that has since been banned and NYC had a 2000% increase from 2005-2009.
5de9 TIL that before the advent of air travel, landowners used to own an infinitely tall column of air rising above their property. Today there’s no official verdict on where property rights end, but U.S. policy is that anything above 500 feet is navigable airspace.