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TIL Earwigs care for their young and sometimes eat ass

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X0vXR TIL Mangrove can sweat/exert salt, resulting in salt crystals left on the leaves
lol4r TIL that a treatment for rheumatism used to be to sit in the belly of a decomposing whale for 30 hours.
b6y7j TIL Alfred Nobel (creator of dynamite) is thought to have created the prize after an unflattering obituary naming him the “Merchant of Death.”
0dEvA TIL that P.T. Barnum noticed people were lingering too long at his exhibits so he posted signs indicating "This Way to the Egress". Not knowing that "Egress" was another word for "Exit", people followed the signs to what they assumed was a fascinating exhibit and ended up outside.
4jow TIL in 2013 there was a Japanese reality show called “Orgasm Wars”, in which a gay man tries to make a straight man climax by giving him a blowjob for 40 minutes