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TIL removing earwax with Q-tips makes our ears dirtier, and can cause itchiness and infections

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LQB5Q TIL that even though Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters and there is no evidence Shakespeare ever visited Italy, the city of Verona has a house that claims to have been Juliet's home. Her balcony was only added to the building after 1905.
QJ1jk TIL that mammoths were known to indigenous Ugric peoples before Europeans, but they conceived of it as a water spirit or a giant burrowing rodent. The word mammoth even comes from an Ugric term meaning "earth horn"
VB7n8 Today I Learned That Rice-A-Roni Is Named As Such Because The Original Recipe Had Half Rice And Half Pasta
J0O1 TIL Falcons are more closely related to parrots than hawks and eagles
Ooe5a TIL that Scotland Yard has a team of over 200 “Super Recognisers” who can remember 80% of faces they ever seen. The rest of us can do about 20%.