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TIL that those cute little horns on caterpillars give off a terrible, no good, very bad smell if you try to get the buggers off of your parsley. Also, caterpillars love parsley...

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e0Lk5 TIL Norway practices restorative justice in their prison system and prisons mimic normal life. Prisoners get many amenities and benefits and sometimes keep their jobs on the outside while serving time, commuting daily. Norway's recidivism rate is one of the lowest in the world at 20% within 5 yrs.
pJoe TIL The inscription on the Hiroshima Peace Memorial reads “please rest in peace for ‘we/they’ shall not repeat the error.” In Japanese, the sentence’s subject is omitted, thus it could be interpreted as 'we’ or 'they’. This was intended to memorialize the victims without politicizing the issue.
8aaYb TIL the setting of Final Fantasy VII is a planet colonized by the descendants of Shinra from Final Fantasy X-2
Z8BnB TIL When Apollo 12 deliberately crashed the Ascent Stage of its Lunar Module onto the Moon's surface, NASA reported that the Moon rang like a bell for almost an hour, leading to arguments that it must be hollow like a bell.
QN9Va TIL Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 trade union leaders.