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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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WMR9 TIL cellphones are 10 times dirtier than toilet seats
9Y66m TIL former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas claimed that people acting on the orders of President Richard Nixon were trying to plant marijuana in his yard so that they could stage a televised raid and force him to retire from the court, with his replacement appointed by Nixon.
6EJbl TIL that grain-free dog food isn't healthier for your dog and the FDA is beginning to link grain-free dog food to a life-threatening heart problem called dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).
waAJ TIL that a Role Playing Game company (Steve Jackson Games) was raided by the Secret Service partly because they were developing a game about hacking. This was the main influence in the foundation of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a non-profit digital rights group.
N71d8 TIL that World War II WASP pilot Katherine Dussaq married the inventor of the polygraph machine and was herself a renowned forensics expert who ran an all-women detective agency. Katherine died in a service-related crash in November of 1944, only weeks away from the disbanding of the WASP.