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TIL Atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc on the population of frogs, emasculating 75% of makes, and turning 1/10 into females.

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kO0xg TIL Goodhart's Law, the principle that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. For example, when a government tries to bring down unemployment figures to demonstrate how well the economy is doing, unemployment figures stop being a good measure of the economy.
D1app TIL that the filling between the wafers in Kit-Kats is made from other mashed up Kit-Kats that didn't get past the quality assurance due to minor imperfections
GYy9Q TIL about Ann Hodges, the only person to have been struck by a meteorite
N79bN TIL That in Brazil, some prisons use Geese rather than Dogs to help patrol prisons-this is because prisoners would just give the Dogs food and they would become friendly with them, whereas Geese are only friendly with their owner, and will make a lot of noise if someone tries to escape
xVZeb TIL Prince had a bank vault that held enough unreleased music to put out an album every year for a century.