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TIL termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.

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yQvOv TIL there is a 1420 book that was found to have cat piss on one of its pages. The author of the manuscript even wrote on the page "Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer... and beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."
rPNe TIL that the alien language featured in Futurama was completely deciphered by fans only a few hours after the pilot episode finished airing
KYZyw TIL Ontario Teachers Pension Plan owns 1/3 of a company that controls 2600 units of Taco Bell, Panera, Applebee's, Arby's, and Wendy's
4Jj5 TIL: 10,000 light years away from Earth, there is a huge cloud of alcohol. It is 1000 times larger than the diameter of our solar system and contains enough alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints. To drink all of it, everyone on Earth would have to drink 300K pints each day—for 1 billion years.
nWNb TIL that when Susan Kuhnhausen, an ER nurse, was confronted in her house by a crab-hammer wielding hitman, she struggled with him and wound up choking him to death. The hitman had been sent by her ex-husband.