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TIL There’s an ant with a sting as painful as a gunshot wound.
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TIL “Mark Twain” (meaning “Mark number two”) was a Mississippi River term: the second mark on the line that measured depth signified two fathoms, or twelve feet.
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TIL Beekeeping has been going for thousands of years and it was wide spread in the Levant regions by 1500 BCE. The practice was so important for the local economies that in the Hittite laws the penalties for stealing a swam of bees or empty hive was about the same as the fine for stealing a sheep.
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TIL that in the late 1800's and early 1900's, gambling on US elections was extremely widespread. In New York, the amount of money spent on betting on elections would often exceed the total trading in stocks and bonds. Since there weren't modern polls, betting odds were how newspaper predicted races.
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TIL that Tupac Shakur’s godmother was convicted of killing a police officer, escaped prison, and soon fled to Cuba where she has been living since 1979.
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TIL record labels execs were concerned that the explicit content of the 1997 Meredith Brooks song "Bitch" would hamper its commercial success. They even considered censoring the song.