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TIL Before she became a big name in pop music, Taylor Swift was knocking praying mantises out of Christmas trees. Her family lived on a tree farm, and the superstar’s job was to ensure customers’ christmas trees weren’t full of bugs.

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9LXQ TIL that a physicist made his cat the co-author of his scientific paper to avoid replacing “we” with “I” throughout his paper.
16MAV TIL that, until 1998, a Member of Parliament had wear a top hat to raise a point of order in the House of Commons.
jNG9j TIL that a 10-hour film called Paint Drying was made by a disgruntled filmmaker in order to force Britain's film censorship board to watch and classify paint drying.
MeOW0 TIL the gender-neutral “they” was used as the 3rd person singular in English until about 1800, when “he” and “she” became widespread to make English more like Latin
4XQk6 TIL: The Black Plague that wreaked havoc throughout Europe and killed roughly 25 million people, is 100% curable with cheap modern antibiotics and is still around but considered no big deal by the medical community.