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TIL new world vultures have bacteria on their plumage that is unknown to science.

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YgYP TIL that Niue, a small Polynesian island country in the southwest pacific, is the world’s first “WiFi Nation”, with free wireless internet access available throughout the entire country.
ngXB TIL that even though Disney was willing to completely fund Lady in the Water, M. Night Shyamalan stormed out of their offices claiming they no longer valued individualism, because then-chairman Dick Cook didn’t understand the story. The film was later released under Warner Bros.
p8Eae TIL that “cooties” originally was WWI soldiers’ slang for body lice that infested the trenches, before it evolved into a children’s game of contagion that even includes “inoculation” via a ball point pen and a rhyme, which emerged after the polio vaccine became common.
7Blx TIL that Komodo Dragons actually do have venom-producing glands and are “remarkably clean” animals, debunking the 30 year assumption that they used harmful bacteria from rotting flesh.
bkMa TIL that the children’s song group “the wiggles” were originally the “hardest working punk band in australia”.