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TIL Lawn Darts--banned in the United States due to injuries and even the deaths of children--were based on Roman plumbata, a weapon of war

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xMM1 TIL: The black panther is not it’s own species but actually refers to any melanistic (black) big cat. This would include black leopards, jaguars, tigers or lions.
oBXN7 TIL “Stopped” was the last word of British surgeon & anatomist, Joseph Henry Green (1791 - 1863), while feeling his own pulse.
JYLPQ TIL although Benjamin Franklin never tried to get the turkey as the national bird, he did think eagles were bad moral creatures and that turkeys were much more respectable.
pMG8 TIL- In 1935 Congress “declared war on soil erosion and enlisted kudzu as a primary weapon. More than 70 million kudzu seedlings were grown in nurseries by the newly created Soil Conservation Service.”
XJvE TIL that the chlorine smell is only activated when it is working. Therefore, the more intense the smell of chlorine at the pool, the more piss and feces there is.