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TIL a baby’s cry is engineered to be as hard to ignore as possible

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dnj TIL that a Roman merchant who sold fake jewels was sentenced to face a lion in the arena. When the gate finally opened, a chicken walked out. Emperor Gallienus proclaimed “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him.”
M7mQK TIL that the founder of Bose Corporation donated a majority of the company to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ln6A TIL that pig rectum is almost indistinguishable from calamari, and is sometimes secretly used as a substitute or sold as “artificial calamari”.
PYvwn TIL The human immune systems neutrophil granulocytes engulf and kill bacteria with hypochlorous acid, the active ingredient in bleach, as well as hydrogen peroxide - effectively sanitizing the body with the same chemicals we use to sanitize surfaces.
ZelB TIL Botto Bistro, an Italian restaurant in San Francisco, started a campaign “ Hate us on Yelp ” to become the worst rated restaurant in Yelp. It also offered a 25 percent discount to customers who gave it a 1 star review on Yelp.