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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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rEOx TIL the brain has 2 internal clocks and people with Parkinson’s disease have trouble telling the passage of time.
JYdGm TIL that an Egyptian man tried to bypass a mandatory drug test by using his wife's urine. He found out he failed when his boss handed him the results and said, "congratulations, you're pregnant."
Bevk TIL that if we had a spacecraft that could “simply” accelerate at a constant 1g (the acceleration rate of free-falling objects due to gravity), then the passengers would be able to travel through the entire KNOWN universe, not merely the observable universe, in just one lifetime.
0dR9p TIL about the existence of the European Green Belt - an 8,500km long natural strip of wild forests and national parks connecting the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea
J1wjv TIL that Isekai is on of the most popular genres of Japanese science fiction. It revolves around a person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world, such as a fantasy world, virtual world, or parallel universe. Isekai traces it's roots back ancient Japanese literature.