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TIL that farmers in India will sometimes paint their dogs to look like tigers in an attempt to keep the monkeys away.

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vPwxD TIL that Rudolf Schenker, guitarist and found of Scorpions, is such a massive fan of the show Gilmore Girls that he wrote the song "Lorelei" as a love letter to it's leading character.
4p4a TIL popcorn has been eaten for almost 7,000 years and is one of the oldest snacks in history
XEQVE TIL there is a fungus in Thailand that spreads into ants and controls their central nervous system making them perform actions to help its spread. It causes ants to climb trees and then fall into the moist soil where the fungus thrives. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/5/110511-zombies-
Ab8a TIL that during Mao’s China in 1958, thousands of sparrows were killed to try and alleviate a ‘pest’ problem they posed. In 1960 a huge amount of locusts appeared in China and ate all the crops due to the fact that their natural predator had been destroyed. 20 million Chinese people died after
QmpM TIL that in 1974 a man died from an overdose of carrot juice.