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TIL that most "spider bites" may actually be misdiagnosed MRSA infections

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eplZ5 TIL Mowing your lawn every two weeks, instead of every week, increases bee populations by 30 percent.
RXWl TIL When the Titanic sunk, the official investigation declared that it went down in one piece, despite the reports of survivors that they witnessed the breakup. Only in 1985 when the wreck was discovered were the survivors stories finally confirmed.
epyk5 TIL: The Jamaica Railway, constructed in 1845 by the British, and was the first line opened to traffic outside Europe and North America. It was the first constructed in the British colonies.
neNYW TIL that due to elephants with tusks getting poached, humans are literally causing natural selection from more elephants being born tuskless over the past decades.
lp0V TIL: Erin Pizzey started one of the first women’s shelters in Canada and the US. Pizzey received death threats and boycotts because of her claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women are equally capable of violence as men. Pizzey said that the threats were from militant feminists