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TIL The Mad Hatterpillar wears its old heads as hats.

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e0ErE TIL in 2017 Glastonbury Festival had to add pineapples to their list of contraband following the success of Glass Animals and their song Pork Soda, which contained the lyric "Pineapples are in my head" and caused fans to bring the fruit to live performances en masse
5bY8 TIL birds don’t have the same biochemical pain pathway for spicyness as mammals so they don’t suffer at all from capsaicin
4Xvlo TIL In 1917, people were deliberately infected with malaria to cure their syphilis, while the malaria was cured quinine. The man who developed this treatment, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, received the nobel prize for it.
Yj9r TIL Bette Nesmith was a typist in the 1950s. She invented liquid paper because she was fed up with having to scrap a whole page due to a typo. Later she sold her company for over 40 millions.
worxM TIL the The Mission: Impossible theme song doubles as a spy code, because the music mirrors the Morse Code for M (dash dash) I (dot dot)