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TIL mothers hid creepily in Victorian photos in order to hold their babies still

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x618w TIL: in 1964 the U.S. ceded land to Mexico. A boundary dispute caused by the changing course of the Rio Grande near El Paso was resolved by the Chamizal Treaty which ceded land north of the river to Mexico and some Mexican land to the U.S. They agreed to rechannel the river so it won't happen again.
QNgkE TIL that for one species of moth, the male will shoot layers of hairs drenched in plant toxins onto the female to protect her from predators while he mates with her because copulation takes such a long time. This practice is called protective nuptial festooning!
ddQd TIL cats shed their older claw sheaths to reveal a shiny new claw underneath. Those claw fragments cat owners may or may not find around the house, are a totally normal part of a cat’s nail development.
VBloB TIL the first director of the Big Brother series also directed The Human Centipede movies
xg75 TIL of Neerja Bhanot, a 22 year old Indian air hostess who helped hide 41 American passports aboard a hijacked plane. She died shielding three children from gunfire and was posthumously awarded bravery medals from India, Pakistan, and the United States.