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TIL Oppossums eat ticks and fleas. They will eat up to 5000 ticks per season.

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j7xn TIL that uppon its release, “The Shining” was nominated for The Razzies including worst actress for Shelley Duvall and worst director for Stanley Kubrick
KOEJ4 TIL that in 2007, the islet of Pontinha became an independent nation after the owner, Renato Barros, an art teacher, noticed a legal loophole in the sale charter issued by the King of Portugal in 1903.
jD0j TIL babies are (probably) genetically engineered to look more like their fathers than their mothers, so that fathers will be inclined to believe their paternity.
5VYXk TIL of the Potato Park. A seed bank in Peru, it is managed by Indigenous communities and focuses on Andean crops and plants. It specialises in potatoes, and houses samples of 2300 of the 4000 varieties in the world
OGyx6 TIL that before he played Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi played a W.H.O. Doctor (World War Z, 2013)