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TIL An animal subspecies exists that uses fire tools to deliberately create fire. This is the only known animal on the planet (sans humans) to practice this behavior.

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Z8BnB TIL When Apollo 12 deliberately crashed the Ascent Stage of its Lunar Module onto the Moon's surface, NASA reported that the Moon rang like a bell for almost an hour, leading to arguments that it must be hollow like a bell.
LkR4P TIL the last words of the French Grammarian Pere Bouhours: "Soon I shall, or soon I will die: both are correct."
Pw5e TIL that when Michael Foot was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee, The Times reportedly announced the news with the headline “Foot Heads Arms Body.”
mW5R TIL that it took an average of 52,000 bullets to make a single kill by regular infantry units during the Vietnam War.
9YMZQ TIL about .kkrieger, a fully 3D first person shooter which takes up only 96KB. This is about 60x smaller than the average selfie.