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TIL that wasps and hornets, despite being primarily carnivorous are actually important pollinators that are good to have in your garden for reasons other than controlling other pests

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kJ1M4 TIL The rings of Saturn are only about 10 meters thick
neVo7 TIL A survey of ~80,000 words estimated the origin of English words to be 28.3% French, 28.24% Latin, 25% Germanic, 5.32% Greek, 4.04% No etymology given, 3.28% Proper names, all other languages < 1%.
VMV94 TIL about John Snow who is considered, for his persistent efforts to determine how cholera was spread and for the statistical mapping methods he initiated, to be the father of modern epidemiology.
NDvb TIL when Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, its ash cloud circled the planet and changed the global climate. One night in 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley met and told ghost stories inspired by the dark, dismal atmosphere. That night gave birth to Frankenstein and the Byronic Dracula
k5X4 TIL St. Fiarce is a patron saint of hemorrhoids. He miraculously cured his inflamed anus by placing it upon a blessed rock. The stone survives to this day, imprinted with his holy hole, and many still flock to it hoping to cure themselves.