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TIL that deer are the deadliest animal in the United States.

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N7R18 TIL about a tattooed biker gang called Rescue Ink, who travel around rescuing neglected and abused animals and taking them to no-kill shelters/rehabilitation centres.
BrLGL TIL about Agnodice, a Greek female physician. She disguised herself as a man because women are not allowed to practice medicine. She got so good that rival physicians accused her of seducing female patients. She was defended by the women and the law against female physicians in Athens are revoked.
Y7eA7 TIL After the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage increased by 300% in the United States.
Lk6jv TIL that a “white elephant gift exchange” takes its name from the legend of the King of Siam gifting rare albino elephants to those who displeased him because the upkeep costs would financially ruin them.
rAd1 TIL we could probably kill off all the mosquitoes with minimal permanent ecological damage.