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TIL that snakes have forked tongues to be able to smell in three dimensions. By picking up odours from slightly different locations they are able to tell the direction and source of the smell.

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kOMD7 TIL of serial killer Joe Metheny, who minced his victims into hamburgers and sold them at his own BBQ stand.
yVVYp TIL in 1985, Austria got busted for spiking their wines with diethylene glycol, a minor ingredient in antifreeze
AD7Rl TIL a "no pitch" in baseball that is ruled to be not a ball, a strike or a balk. One of the most well-known examples of this is when Randy Johnson hit a bird with a pitch in 2001; the ball was ruled dead, as was the bird.
p8eG8 TIL Aviation experts say African airlines have a terrible safety record but Ethiopian Airlines has always been considered an exception with a solid history. The previous fatal crash was in 1988 when a domestic flight hit a flock of pigeons and crashed, killing 31 people
GAvXj TIL that Boeing's spacecraft are as good as their planes