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TIL birds in Australia, known as “fire hawks”, are known to utilize and spread fires in order to flush out prey.

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16JlX TIL after the American Revolution the -ville suffix became popular in the names of new US settlements due to an increase of pro-French sentiments.
kJAWE TIL that 700.000 bikes were stolen in the Netherlands in one year, at a total financial damage of €404 million (2021).
wL8pY TIL about the Look-and-say sequence, an incremental pattern generated from counting the number of consecutive digits in groups of the same digit.
yEbX TIL that Benjamin Franklin learned how to write better by getting a well-written article, putting notes at the end of each sentences, leaving the notes for a while, and trying to reconstruct the article through his notes
P1mAe TIL that with approximately 38 trillion microbial cells compared to 30 trillion human cells, our bodies are more microbial than human.