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TIL Seagulls can live to almost 50

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Bg1Yx TIL about the Haymarket Affair, an 1886 incident in Chicago where labors striking for an 8hr workday were dispersed by police w force, killing a protestor. In response at the next rally, a protestor threw TNT at the cops, killing several w several more on both sides dying in the ensuing gunfight.
04Y5 TIL: some 20% of women experience an acute pain called Mittelschmerz when they ovulate, being able to predict the exact moment of ovulation and from which ovary
Oo0La TIL Japan has a ghostly folklore legend like Bloody Mary. It walks behind you when you’re alone outside. Its named Betobeto-san because wooden sandals make that sound on the ground. But its not dangerous. You simply step aside and say, ‘After you Betobeto-san!’ and it goes on ahead of you.
d8GPZ TIL that Groundhog Day was introduced to America by German settlers who originally used a hedgehog to predict the weather, switching to the groundhog as they were easier to come across in the Keystone State.
b0DE TIL that Lebanon was one of only Arab countries that did not declare war on Israel after its creation and, until the early 1970s, had an armistice with Israel and was Israel’s calmest boarder.