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TIL that tickling is a self defence mechanism against creeping insects like spiders and mosquitoes. Not only does light tickling not make us laugh, it draws attention to the spot where you feel it.

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KY0aQ TIL: TLC was the first all-female group to sell 10 million copies of an album - CrazySexyCool. But they weren't cool about making $50,000 each for the album while the record company got $75 million. So, they held Arista Records President Clive Davis hostage until the NYPD intervened.
0e05 TIL that one of the first famous female mathematicians was killed by a gang of Christians.
9YwAr It happens to everyone. You might be walking back from grabbing a drink at your favourite neighbourhood watering hole, strolling through a dense forest, or even merely getting up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom when you hear that squishy sound. An ant, a cockroach, a beetle, a centipede, or whatever it used to be, is stuck to the bottom of your foot. Did the bug feel pain when it exploded? Did it feel fear? Did it even have time to be scared? If it had time, would it have done something or said something to any of its bug buddies?
Gd44 TIL Three years before Robert E. Lee was born, his mother, Anne Hill Carter, was thought to have died from yellow fever, and was placed in the family vault until a caretaker heard a faint voice coming out of the coffin three days later.
neMo TIL Pencils have always used graphite for writing, the danger during the 1950’s and before came from the lead based paint on the pencil