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TIL Canada geese eggs are "aborted" by coating the eggs with corn oil for population control. Simply removing or destroying the eggs will just result in the geese laying more eggs

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0yw5 TIL Ben Stein’s famous lecture about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in “Ferris Buller’s Day Off” was not originally in the script. Stein, by happenstance, was lecturing off-camera to the amusement of extra’s who laughed so hard director Hughes told Ben to do that lecture for camera.
R1W9 TIL Neil Armstrong’s astronaut application form arrived a week past the deadline. His friend Dick Day saw the late arrival of the application and slipped it into the pile before anyone noticed.
epVdJ TIL the majority of ancient Greeks and Romans that were literate read out loud. Reasons for this include a lack of space between letters and no formalized system of punctuation that helped with pauses in reading.
VMawp TIL of the Winterberg tunnel; which , during WW1 was sealed shut by French artillery fire trapping the 270 German soldier inside. Over the next six days, as oxygen ran out, they either suffocated or took their own lives. Some asked comrades to kill them. The tunnel has just been discovered.
5Yop8 TIL anandamide, also known as N-arachidonoylethanolamine (AEA), is a fatty acid neurotransmitter. The name is taken from the Sanskrit word ananda, which means "joy, bliss, delight". It can be activated by THC or CBD coming into contact with cannabinoid receptors in the nervous system.