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TIL Ladybugs are highly promiscuous cannibals and were found to have the first known case of STDs in insects

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OoM5e TIL that under ancient Jewish law, unanimous conviction was considered as too good to be correct. The absence of dissenting opinions among the judges was seen a proof that the suspect is very probably innocent
xPvD TIL that an ambulance was stationed outside a screening of The Human Centipede 2 as a joke, until a woman became so physically ill after viewing the film that actual paramedics were needed
AWAB TiL:People didn’t empty chamber pots into the streets in the middle ages.
X0v48 TIL there are over 1,000 homes in Edinburgh, Scotland that nobody has lived in for over 10 years. The most common reason is a reclusive homeowner passing away and nobody realizing they've inherited the property.
XEDy6 TIL of the Shepard Tone, a musical technique that creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower.