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TIL Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the feces of predators

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Xnl8 TIL there is a micro-nation named the Principality of Sealand 6 miles off the coast of Britain with an area of 6 acres. On 7/24 this year they hosted the first ever ‘Half-Marathon of Sealand’, which involved a treadmill.
R5xpQ TIL in the mid-1800s, a snail spent nearly four years glued to a specimen card in the British Museum before scientists realized it was still alive.
4M16 TIL that a Roman merchant who sold fake jewels was sentenced to face a lion in the arena. When the gate finally opened, a chicken walked out. Emperor Gallienus proclaimed “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him.”
E1L5V TIL about the West Memphis Three, 3 teens convicted of the brutal murder of three 8 year old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Damien Echols was sent to death row. On August 19, 2011, Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley were released from prison as part of a Alford plea deal.
6pGm TIL Danny Lloyd, the child actor who played Danny Torrance in The Shining, was closely guarded by Kubrick during filming and didn’t know it was a horror film until several years later.