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TIL that female dragonfiles often fake their own deaths to avoid having sex.

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VMeN4 TIL There are no hummingbirds in Hawaii and never will be thanks to pineapples
OGG71 TIL that just less than a century ago, astronomers weren't sure that the universe expanded beyond the Milky Way. Edwin Hubble (for whom the Hubble telescope was named) definitively proved the universe was far more vast.
QaYL TIL the “vampire squirrel” of Borneo has the fluffiest tail of any mammal on Earth - its tail is 130% the size of its own body
vPBJr TIL that from 1969 to 1971, shortly after it's closing, Alcatraz Island was taken over and occupied by Indigenous Indians to protest the use of their land for the prison
epEBL TIL that Switzerland suffered casualties in WW2, despite being neutral. The US air force accidentally bombed a number of Swiss towns, thinking they were in Germany, and several aerial incidents took place against both Allied and Axis planes due to violating Swiss airspace.