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TIL in 2006 over a 1000 toads swelled up to 3 times their size and exploded with no apparent reason, causing panic at the possibility of a new virus. The real reason? Local crows had figured out how to peck out the frog’s highly nutritious liver while avoiding their poisonous skin

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wLJLM TIL of cable car racing, also called spindizzy's capable of reaching speeds of 155mph+
X0gGP TIL the infamous coast-to-coast Cannonball Run challenge is named after Cannonball, the locomotive driven by Casey Jones when he fatally tried to make up a 75 minute delay and set a speed record from Memphis TN to Canton MS
WkBLA TIL Regina King voiced both Riley and Huey in the animated series "The Boondocks"
9wrGp TIL in 2015 30-70% of all internet traffic in India was estimated to be pornography, despite it being ostensibly illegal
xwBo TIL In 2011, a crested black macaque pressed a trigger on a wildlife photographer’s camera, set up in a jungle for that specific purpose. This incident set off an unusual debate about copyright. In 2016, a federal judge ruled that a monkey cannot own the copyright to the images.