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TIL inanimate objects can win awards like “Hero of Labor” in North Korea.

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x6Plg TIL about Jay Traver, a University of Massachusetts entomologist who unwittingly documented her own case of delusional parasitosis.
69rm TIL that you can send a written letter to McDonalds requesting pieces for their Monopoly promotional game, and they are required to send you four pieces. [Section 3.B]
1Yl8 TIL that “cob” in “cobweb” is actually an old and forgotten English word for “spiders”
LwgP TIL that internet providers use megabits per second (Mbps) to measure download speed, which is 1/8th the size of a megabyte (MBps), despite files being measured in bytes
jo5a TIL Komodo dragons can reproduce completely asexually, through a process called parthenogenesis. Furthermore, offspring reproduced by this process can only be male. This means that a single female dragon can create an entirely new colony without a mate.