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TIL A Man once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces.

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KOXLR TIL in 2013 an elderly care home in California was shut down leaving many residents with nowhere to go or care for them. After the rest of the staff left, a cook and a janitor decided to stay behind and, upaid, they looked after them 24/7.
4X6x5 New evidence suggests that the chemical trails ants leave to communicate where to go might not be produced by ants after all - but the microbiome in their abdomens.
oBxRo TIL that 28 years ago a Floridian woman opened her door to a clown and was shot. In 2014, a hair was found in the evidence. After a DNA test, the clown was found in Tennessee running a restaurant with the wife's husband. Apparently having an affair months before the murder, they were now married.
x6jLk TIL regular brown/dark raisins are just Thompson (white/green) grapes after drying normally. Golden raisins retain color by adding sulfur dioxide to stop browning caused by the polyphenol oxidase enzymes.
kJoP4 TIL Canadian artist Michael Snow sued the Toronto Eaton Centre mall in 1982 after they put Christmas bows on an art installation of flying geese which he had sculptured. This led to a landmark court case, and a leading Canadian decision on artists moral rights. Snow ultimately ended up winning.