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TIL that British India tried to get rid of cobras by offering a reward for captured snakes. Locals started breeding cobras & giving them to the government to collect the reward. The British found out & stopped the program. The breeders then released their snakes, causing the population to increase

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GYGK1 TIL In the ancient Roman comedic play "The Mother-in-Law," a husband falsely accuses his new wife of infidelity after she gives birth mere months into marriage. A stolen ring reveals he assaulted his future wife in a dark street before they met, and is in fact the father of the child.
rRL7o TIL: Encyclopedia Britannica was the oldest continuously published reference source in the English language. The last printed edition was published in 2010. The publisher was at that time 244 years old.
yQbOw TIL 10 Downing Street in the 19th Century was guarded by two men who would sit outside the building in leather chairs, armed with a pistol. Each chair featured a drawer filled with hot coals to keep the guards warm, and a sphere-shaped hood to protect from the weather and improve acoustics.
v1K7R TIL that the Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy" developed out of a conversation between Danger Mouse and CeeLo Green talking about ways in which they could make people think we were crazy. CeeLo took the conversation, turned it into "Crazy" and recorded it in one take
kOXYE TIL A couple was found murdered execution style on a dirt road in South Carolina. Despite their remarkable features and mortuary photographs, the couple and their killer(s) have never been unidentified.