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TIL Blue and Yellow Mud Wasps aka Mud Daubers are not aggressive towards humans and actually function as pollinators and control spider populations, such as the Black Widow.

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nWv99 TIL: The punishment of the dogs was an annual sacrifice of Rome where live dogs were suspended from a cross & paraded. In the same procession, Geese were decorated in gold and purple and carried in honor. Because The Dogs didn't Bark and the Geese honked When the Gauls launched a nocturnal assault.
l7YN TIL there is a variant of chess called “Singularity Chess” played on a board distorted in the center. Due to the distortion, some pieces can make U-turns, attack the same square multiple ways, and bishops can change square colors.
xGb TIL that Bayer, famous for producing aspirin, purchased prisoners from Auschwitz to test new drugs.
jvBE TIL the last time a black man was lynched by the KKK was in 1981, and the police officers first on scene first presumed it was a drug deal gone wrong.
XEKpj TIL during the 1967 war between Biafra and Nigeria, Biafra established a puppet state called the Republic of Benin, that lasted one day before being occupied by Nigeria.