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TIL female frogs play dead to avoid mating with males

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oBpnL TIL that in 1720 a ship full of precious goods arrived in Marseille/France. In spite of clear signs, greedy merchands put pressure an the authorities to shorten the quarantine and not to burn the freight. More than 100.000 people died because of pestilence in the next two years.
7rymP TIL that the largest protest in US history, by far, was only 3 years ago - The 2017 Women's March, where 1-2% of the entire US population marched
6ENA7 TIL Robert Williams, a Ford assembly line worker, is the first human in history to have been killed by a robot. He was hit by a robotic arm in 1979.
MeMjm TIL 95% of all copper ever mined was extracted after 1900. More than half has been extracted in the last 24 years.
vPBWK TIL as a teenager, noted skeptic James Randi found a pastor who claimed he could read minds. After performing the same cold-reading trick on the parishioners, the pastor's wife called police who then jailed him.