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TIL that Reddit is owned by the same company that operates Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker and House & Garden

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VMnWG TIL that North Korea's frog population mostly disappeared in 1995. It is believed that they were eaten by starving villagers at the start of the Great Famine.
9YjGB TIL There are more ants alive today, than hours of time since the Big Bang.
oB0AE TIL: As of 2012 there is still an active witch hunting unit in Saudi Arabia. In 2009, 118 people were charged with witchcraft and by 2011 there were 9 bureaus in the country to combat sorcery. The US has been accused of having sorcerers.
WLRA TIL Scorpionfly males bribe females with food. Smaller males will dress as females, take the bigger males’ food, and regift it to real females.
9opp TIL that Giuseppe Zangara assassinated the mayor of Chicago in 1933. But, he was standing on a wobbly chair and so missed his real target, the man next to him - President elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR was saved by a faulty folding chair.