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TIL Rat poison is actually an anti coagulant mixed with stuff like fiberglass. Rats are always scraping and squeezing and they build up these minor injuries, the anti coagulant stops their blood from clotting properly and they internally hemorrhage to death.

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xV4l5 TIL that Katsuya Eguchi, the creator for the game Animal Crossing, drew his inspiration for it from experiences of having to move from where he grew up to moving to Nintendo headquarters and wanted to "recreate the feeling of being alone in a new town, away from friends and family."
0XM5 TIL Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were enemies. Churchill favored letting Gandhi die if he went on a hunger strike, and during the Bengal famine of 1943 responded to urgent requests to divert food supplies to India with a telegram asking, if food was so scarce, “why Gandhi hadn’t died yet”.
dg89 TIL Japan’s First Female Photojournalist is Still Shooting at the Age of 101
1aeGr TIL Researchers have crafted tiny wireless cameras that can be attached to beetles
86ZX TIL 8000 people follow a twitter account called “Cologne Cathedral” that tweets “DONG” every hour. The amount of “DONGs” shows the time.