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TIL hummingbirds eat soil and wood ash to supplement their diet of nectar with minerals.

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l7Jaa TIL Upon the death of the Dalai Lama, a search for his reincarnation is conducted where a child is identified through a series of 'tests' before being recognized as the succeeding Dalai Lama. The current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the 14th.
ZpXRv TIL that Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize after he helped broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
epA9J TIL: Indians used to burn widows till the British colonized them.
k6jd TIL the word “sniper” is derived from the hunting of snipes. A snipe is a small bird said to be difficult to hit, even for experienced hunters, so anyone skilled enough to hit one was called a ‘sniper’
KOnY4 TIL that an estimated 25% of young adults in the U.S. have a fear of the slight pain caused by needles called trypanophobia, and that it may lead 16% of young adults in the U.S. to skip getting medical injections.