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TIL People are more likely to give up smoking when they live in areas surrounded by grass and trees

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m1LPO TIL: Owls ears are vertically asymmetric, giving them "stereo" hearing vertically as well as horizontally.
Z8XGG TIL that the Fahrenheit temperature scale was the only used temperature scale in the English Speaking world until the 1960s. Britain and Canada among others converted to Celsius, with the US being the exception.
OoQRR TIL that Dungeons and Dragons was once linked to satanism and murder because of sensationalized media.
9YmV6 TIL that caterpillar-damaged plants protect themselves by attracting parasitic wasps. Studies have shown that a variety of plants, when injured by herbivores, emit chemical signals that guide natural enemies to the herbivores.
K1K4 TIL Kangaroo rarely hops backward due to its anatomy, thus the reason it and an emu are on the Australian Coat of Arms, symbolizing a nation should only move forward.