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TIL catnip makes a better mosquito repellent than DEET

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7pxx TIL that at the age of 62, Wisdom the Albatross is the oldest known wild bird. Wisdom still circumnavigates the Pacific annually and just hatched her 30th child (at least) on Midway Atoll. Wisdom has flown 2 to 3 million miles since 1956. That’s equivalent to 4 to 6 trips to the Moon and back.
N4R6 TIL Hemingway underwent shock therapy to treat his manic depression (bi-polar disorder). The treatment obliterated his memory, which made it impossible for him to write. This was the catalyst that sparked his desire to commit suicide.
VMg4p TIL according to a study, US Americans who think Ukraine is located in Latin America or Australia are the most enthusiastic about using military force in Ukraine.
10dO TIL that when Michael Jackson died, Google believed all the searches for his name were a DDoS attack, and blocked such searches for 30 minutes. Twitter and Wikipedia also crashed, with the Los Angeles Times suffering an outage also.
RYja TIL : In 1726 a woman named Mary Toft tricked doctors into believing she had given birth to rabbits.She did so by showing dead rabbits up her vagina and then pushing them out hence “birthing” them.