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TIL There’s an ant with a sting as painful as a gunshot wound.

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e0aa6 TIL Until the late 15th century the word ‘girl’ simply means a child of either sex. Male babies were called ‘knave girls’ and female babies were referred to as... ‘gay girls’.
5YDAn TIL that Samuel Colt financed his invention and development of the revolver handgun by performing laughing gas demonstrations across the United States and Canada.
R5eDa TIL all female mammals have a clitoris
16bLX TIL that “miraculous”appearances of bloody eucharist in the middle ages were actually result of growth of a pinkish-reddish bacteria called Serratia marcescens
4kXPo TIL An orange tree blight began spreading from China in the 90s. It has now infected trees worldwide and is decimating orange production. Orange harvest is down 72% in Florida and 31% in Brazil. There is no known cure for the blight and scientists are frantically trying to find a cure.