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TIL Tic Tac Toe is a dumbed down version of a game called “Nine Men’s Morris” from the Roman Empire

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yQPop TIL that the jeweled cockroach wasp injects a venom into a cockroache’s brain to make it lose its escape reflex, the roach then willingly follows the wasp to its nest, where the wasp lays an egg onto the roaches chest that will subsequently eat the weak-willed roach alive until a new wasp hatches.
VMPPp TIL - On a clear night humans can see the light from a candle burning 1.6 miles away
NeeQ TIL that in 1946 the U.S. Public Health Service infected 1,000 Guatemalan citizens with STD’s for experiments.
rNGd TIL on October 20, 1944, an above-ground natural gas storage tank began to leak. The gas eventually made its way into the sewers of Cleveland and eventually ignited, blowing manhole covers miles away and shooting flames up through the plumbing of homes. 130 people were killed.
GYMag TIL that after a bone marrow transplant, a man’s semen contains only the donor’s DNA