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TIL about kleptoparasitism, an opportunistic feeding strategy where one animal deliberately steals food from another.

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v1op8 TIL the words you use when questioning witnesses greatly affects their answer. They showed study participants video of a car crash and asked them to estimate the speed. Their estimates got progressively larger when using the verbs contacted, hit, bumped, collided, smashed in the question.
vPKP8 TIL according to the King James Bible, Book of Revelations, the City of God is 1500 miles in length, width and height.
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kPM5 TIL that there is a current scientific hypothesis that the sun has a companion which is currently about 1-1.5 light years away. It is believed that it has an elliptical orbit which, every 26 million years, sends matter towards the Earth causing mass extinction events. Its nickname, the “Death Star.”
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