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TIL Some flying insects have an organs called halteres that function like vibrating structure gyroscopes

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vP6oj TIL of hourglass syndrome, caused by repeatedly and extensively contracting the muscles of your upper abdomen in order to pull your stomach up and in so you look slimmer. This can cause breathing problems, neck and back pain and other issues.
VMdVG TIL that in 1933 6000 people were deported by the Soviet Union to an island in the middle of Siberia and were abandoned there without food or shelter. Within three weeks most of the prisoners were dead due to the widespread episodes of cannibalism. The island became known as “Cannibal Island”.
dD6dK TIL Vincent Price did about 400 recordings for The Hilarious House of Frightenstein in four days and for about $13,000 in 1971, his standard appearance fee. The show itself only ran for one season.
pY5j8 TIL about Flaco, an owl that escaped from the Central Park zoo. The WSJ called him a peeping tom for frequently being caught looking in apartment windows throughout Manhattan. 1 year after escape he collided into a building, his necropsy revealed large traces of rat poison and pigeon herpesvirus.
kO0d5 TIL that Afghanistan had no national anthem under Taliban's rule because music was outlawed.