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TIL Tom Lehrer's famous song "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" was inspired by the City of Boston doing exactly that. The city spread strychnine-laced corn in its public parks to reduce the pigeon population

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vPOx8 TIL The natural history museum in Dublin, Ireland is known as ‘The Dead Zoo’
Lkpmm TIL about the Florida fairy shrimp, which was discovered in 1952 to be a unique species of fairy shrimp specific to a single pond in Gainesville, Florida. When researchers returned to that pond in 2011, they realized it had been filled in for development, thereby causing the species to go extinct.
VOMZ TIL Queen Elizabeth ordered an archbishop to take out a tooth of his own not once but TWICE just to prove the procedure of extracting a tooth was safe and bearable.
kOGw7 TIL The first baseball hats were made of straw. They were first worn by the New York Knickerbockers on April 24, 1849. But within a few years the team began to wear a cap made of fine merino wool. It featured a crown, with an attached visor or bill.
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