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TIL catnip makes a better mosquito repellent than DEET

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Klkw TIL That there is a large black market for chocolate pies in North Korea.
XEQP TIL through listed accounts in the Bible, God killed a total of 2,552,452 people.
e0lvD TIL on a 1995 visit to Washington D.C., Russian President Boris Yeltsin was found on Pennsylvania Avenue, drunk, in his underwear and trying to hail a cab in order to find pizza.
LkNKr TIL that there are as many as 800 languages spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city on the planet, and nowhere in the world has more than Queens, according to the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA).
Wk7JB TIL that the original TRON movie didn't win any special effects awards because the Motion Picture Academy thought they "cheated" by using computer graphics.