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TIL 70% of guns used by the Mexican cartels are smuggled in from the US

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4kkAo TIL of 'brood parasitic' Cuckoo Bumblebees - they don't make nests or form colonies; their queens aggressively invade the nests of other bumblebee species, kill the resident queens, and then lay their own eggs, which are cared for by the resident workers.
BgaKL TIL that the actor who played Barney became a Tantric Sex Healer afterward
wLjkP TIL The company making anti-grafitti solution for the Memorial to the Jews in Berlin, previously produced Zyklon-B for the Nazis during the war.
5YaQD TIL that Chinese folk religion has a goddess of lavatories and concubines- Zigu Shen, also called 'The Purple Lady'. She was a concubine that was killed and buried in a latrine by a jealous wife
XEpxR TIL Brazil Nuts grow on trees with deep roots, which reach down to soil high in natural radium. This makes Brazil Nuts more radioactive than most other items in your home.