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TIL Researchers report that nepetalactone, the essential oil in catnip that gives the plant its characteristic odor, is about ten times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET — the compound used in most commercial insect repellents.

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OomwX TIL about a platform that provides an interactive map for Indigenous lands that changed and improved the way I view the backstory of countries and people. The map includes indigenous territories, languages, and treaties in different areas around the world.
wgMJ TIL that two scientists proved time dilation by each flying around the world carrying a synchronized atomic clock. Upon landing, the clocks were no longer in sync.
4kdPb TIL that glacier mice are are colonies of wandering moss, observed as far apart as Alaska and Uganda. They move at least an inch a day as a herd and in a non-random fashion. Though they reproduce asexual, the conditions for them to form, or the the nature of their movement, has yet to be explained.
4XMAg TIL that introverts tend to have larger, thicker gray matter in their prefrontal cortex — a region of the brain that is linked to abstract thought and decision-making — while extroverts have less gray matter (2012 study by Randy Buckner of Harvard University)
Oo1rg TIL Dracula was translated into Icelandic in 1901, and it wasn't until 2014 that anyone noticed this version was actually a significantly different novel with a smaller page count and a lot more sex