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TIL the insects we call “skeeter eaters” DON’T actually eat mosquitos…who did their PR?

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PY6EO TIL Rachele Mussolini had five children with the Italian dicatator, some of them living to old age in the 1990s. After the war, Rachele Mussolini ran a restaurant in her native village of Predappio, where she served pasta dishes
8aPyX TIL In 1957, a terminal cancer patient was given a worthless drug that caused his tumors to “melt like snowballs on a hot stove.” When he found out it was proven worthless, his cancer returned. He was given a placebo version and it went away again. Got truth again and died.
DQLoV TIL that 3% to 15% of the human population have Arachnophobia (aka anywhere from 246 million to 1.2 billion out of the current 8.2 billion population)
W7eEL TIL the London Jamme Masjid, a mosque in London's East End, was formerly a synagogue that was itself formerly a church in the past- consecrated as the Spitalfields Great Synagogue in 1891 and a Methodist chapel in 1819, showcasing the succession of urban migrants in the area.
P1b8G TIL that after scoring the winning goal in the 1993 League Cup final, Arsenal player Steve Morrow fell off the shoulders of teammate Tony Adams. The fall broke Morrow’s arm and he missed the rest of the season