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TIL Timber rattlesnakes benefit human health by removing 2500-4500 ticks annually from their habitat by eating tick-infested small mammals.

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woEL7 TIL That according to a long standing tradition, every year after the last supply plane left Antarctica for the winter and the base was buttoned up for a long dark wait until spring, the whole crew would gather in the lounge together to watch The Thing.
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X0XmX TIL Putrescine, one of the main chemicals responsible for the smell of decaying flesh (the other being cadaverine), can be applied to fruits to keep them fresher longer
dDp4Z TIL about Sarah Wells, a black Wisconsin woman who earned her High School Diploma at 92 years old. "I want to take a course in Botany... I do not know where else I can go, but I am sure there is something else I can do."