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TIL - Lightning is good for soil

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wLn7M TIL Whales will defecate to defend themselves, creating a "poopnado" by evacuating for several minutes and bobbing up and down and splashing its tail around in the waste
LkVvp TIL In 1997, the FDA rules governing pharmaceutical advertising changed, allowing companies to name their drug and what it's for, while only naming the most significant potential side effects. Nielsen estimates there's an average of 80 drug ads every hour on American television, up from 3 in 1996
a8LE0 TIL that not only was Jingle Bells not originally a Christmas song, it was originally written for and sung in a minstrel show by performers in blackface
oZbo TIL only one US Soldier has been executed between the US Civil War and present day for the crime of desertion - Eddie Slovik, during WWII. Although 21,000 soldiers were tried for desertion during WWII, and 49 handed death sentences, only Slovik actually faced the firing squad.
R5x6a TIL The oldest known museum was built sometime around 530 B.C, by a Neo-Babylonian princess named Ennigaldi-Nanna. Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum displayed artifacts from earlier eras of Mesopotamian history, going back as far as the 20th century B.C.