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TIL Cicadas are the only known creature that can kill bacteria on contact via nothing more than nanostructure

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xXeb TIL spelling 58008/BOOBS on a calculator has a corollary in Portuguese - 50135 spells SEIOS, which means breasts.
ngW7 TIL the black edges on traditional black forest ham are caused by the ham being dipped in cow blood prior to cooking
6EnmJ TIL that the Portuguese in India used to rip off native women's breasts with large iron forks for not converting to Christianity. They did so to threaten others to fall in line and to stop them from feeding their newborns.
Xnrj TIL Elephants killed 605 people in Assam b/w 1994-2006. In South Africa, 3 elephants killed 63 rhinos. Biologists think increased elephant aggression is the result of species-wide trauma from poaching & habitat loss, and direct trauma for those who saw family members murdered before their eyes.
XpdQ TIL J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”, once confessed that he left a poisoned apple on his tutor’s desk.