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TIL that owls have long necks under all their feathers

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74Mb TIL: The Emperor of China who built the Great Wall suppressed intellectual thoughts and unified political opinion by burning books and burying scholars alive.
5VLpr TIL that Saturn's moon Titan is the only known object in the universe aside from Earth to have stable bodies of liquid. There are lakes, seas, and rivers of hydrocarbons across the surface. Its thick atmosphere has been compared to the hypothesized atmosphere of early Earth.
b9GJa TIL about a species called the pied hoverfly (Scaeva pyrastri). It has copied the appearance of a wasp but it’s white. They do this to fool their natural enemies into not eating them because wasp are poisonous. So if u ever see one, don't worry it's harmless. (See link for photo’s)
YlZG TIL Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is the most translated fiction, non-religious book of all time
D110Y TIL of Manga Kenkanryu, a Japanese comic series about Japanese young people who form a group critical of Korea, debating a pro-Korea Group, and humiliating them