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TIL That Hippos eat meat, and are not purely herbivores!

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GYjxj TIL male Pennsylvania grass spiders are more likely to approach a female for sex if she has recently killed and eaten another male.
dDRl7 TIL babies are allowed in the Canadian parliament chamber.
8aJ0K TIL in 1964 on Long Island, N.Y., 7-Eleven became the first chain to offer fresh coffee in to-go cups. The company expanded to-go coffee to nationwide. By the end of the decade, coffee lids began to come into their own too. In 1967, Philadelphian Alan Frank filed a patent for a tearable coffee lid.
x5yk TIL that the first chemical weapons were the bodies of black plague victims catapulted in cities by the Mongols in 1347.
DQE6D TIL About Vulnerable Narcissism. An introverted form of Narcissists who are hypersensitive to criticism and are likely to withdraw from socializing when criticized