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TIL that In ancient China, Spanish Fly beetles were mixed with human excrement, arsenic, and wolfsbane to make the world's first recorded stink bomb

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Kv9B TIL out of the 10,000 members of the Communist Party USA in 1957, 1,500 were FBI informants
GAkOE TIL On the down low: Bimetallism - Bimetallism,[a] also known as the bimetallic standard, is a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent to certain quantities of two metals, typically gold and silver, creating a fixed rate of exchange between them.[3]
kJem4 TIL about the Civilian Conservation Corp a depression Era program employing young men on civil improvement projects like park projects, dams and canals and other projects.
OG75Y TIL that Nicholas Hoult kept and framed Orlok's prosthetic penis worn by Skarsgård in the film Nosferatu (2024)
wLKQW TIL of the Taman Shud Case; a mysterious stranger was seen behaving strangely in a small Australian town in 1948. The next day his dead body was found holding a scrap of paper with a mysterious code on it - to this day he remains unidentified.