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TIL Opossums kill 5500 ticks every week

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d8Dvr TIL the Sami languages of Norway, Sweden and Finland, have as many as 300 different words for types of snow, tracks in snow, and conditions of the use of snow.
b6BNE TIL spiders will often eat their own webs in order to recoup some of the energy used in spinning them.
D1v8v TIL Sweden supported the Viet Cong during the Vietnam war
wLe5E TIL that Aladdin animator Randy Cartwright described working on the Magic Carpet as challenging, since it is only a rectangular shape, that expresses itself through pantomime. Cartwright kept folding a piece of cloth while animating to see how to position the Carpet.
6EdNl TIL that NPR created a 13-episode audio drama of A New Hope which starred Mark Hamill and is believed to have increased a then-struggling NPR's listenership by 40%.