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roM TIL that Grammar Pedantry Syndrome, GPS, is a form of OCD in which the sufferers have to correct every grammatical error
j68PE TIL Benito Mussolini used to be a card-carrying socialist. In 1912 he became a member of the National Directorate of the Italian socialist party and edited socialist newspapers. He considered himself an "authoritarian communist" and a Marxist.
GlN5 TIL that wild bananas have seeds, and the ones we commonly find in supermarkets are sterile clones of a mutant banana plant found in 1836.
R5vNa TIL that rabbits don't really eat carrots all the time and this is a myth. Carrots are too high in sugar and should only be given as an occasional treat. Rabbits mainly eat hay and/or grass, some leafy greens and a small, measured amount of pellets.
7LRX TIL that safety concerns about “pencil lead” were actually about lead being in the yellow paint on the pencils. Graphite has always been used as the core, and there was never a “lead” pencil in this century