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TIL that new Economics PhDs have a 0% unemployment rate

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5BZ9 TIL that in 1913, Nebraska outlawed oral sex - in an ironic twist the act that was passed to criminalize oral sex was the 69th act to be passed that year. The act has since been known as “act 69”.
j68Av TIL that the official cause of Houdini's death on Halloween in 1926 was diffuse peritonitis; this is the result of a burst appendix. J. Gordon Whitehead's sucker punch did not cause his death because Houdini died 6 days later after the punch, and it was caused from a bacterial infection.
BD5L TIL that Pee Wee Herman’s father was a WW2 fighter pilot who, along with 4 other pilots and a total of 4 aircrafts, founded the Israeli Air Force and helped win Israel’s independence in 1948.
7LOO TIL Ants use “social immunization” – if one is infected with a fungus, they still lick the ant, spreading it throughout the colony. This practice both kills some of the spores, and builds immune resistance.
m1xKv TIL: There are more pets than children in Japan