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TIL the Irukandji jellyfish is tiny, almost invisible in the water, yet its sting can cause such extreme pain and terror that people experience days of anxiety, hallucinations, and a feeling of impending death

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E1gJP TIL A French WW1 air force squadron composed of American volunteer pilots, named the Lafayette Escadrille, had two lion cubs as their mascots named ‘Whiskey’ and ‘Soda’
pYvkZ TIL Tacit collusion is when groups work together without an explicit agreement. One example is price leadership inwhich one company changes their prices and competitors follow. In one case automated price setting led to the book The Making of a Fly having a price of $23,698,655.93.
40Aw TIL: In Wyoming it is a misdemeanor to disclose the final sale price of real property (house, farm, etc). There is an effort to change this but it is being resisted by state politicians, with one stating that it “would show what a dummy I was when I bought my house”
dDR1Z TIL that the Pentagon has never passed a financial audit
4bBN TIL As a knife-wielding assassin jumped out of a crowd of people & lunged toward the President of the Maldives, a quick-thinking Boy Scout who was standing in the crowd in his uniform grabbed the blade & saved the leader’s life. As in the US, the motto of the Maldivian Boy Scouts is: “Be Prepared.”