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TIL a parasitic barnacle will infect a crab, castrate the males, make them think they’re female, and force them to carry around the barnacles brood as if it is their own

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MeW77 TIL A man writing a book about an attack on the WTC was inside the Marriot hotel next door when the hotel collapsed on 9/11. He was saved by firefighters and evacuated off a metal beam from the 2nd floor after the hotel fell
Alnw TIL That all British soldiers shot for desertion and cowardice in World War I were posthumously pardoned. In modern times it is believed that many of the soldiers were suffering the effects of shell shock. They are remembered by the Shot at Dawn Memorial.
GYge1 TIL there is a village in China the publishes the names of those who neglect their elderly parents as a means of shaming those people.
1aWAW TIL that serial killer in New Orleans sent letter to the newspapers that on the night of March 19 he would kill again, but would spare any place where jazz band was playing. That night New Orleans' dance halls were fully filled, including many jazz house parties. There were no murders that night
KYDoJ TIL Colonists in pre-Revolutionary America celebrated Guy Fawkes Night by burning effigies of the Pope...it was called Pope Night