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It chows down at a record-setting pace, only taking 8 milliseconds to identify its prey as a tasty morsel, and only 200 milliseconds total to eat it. That’s the fastest foraging behavior of any mammal on the planet.

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KY9lE TIL that California black acorns were used by California native Americans as a staple food.
V660 TIL the dog sledding term “Mush” comes from Canadians mispronouncing the french word for go; “Marche”.
wLyoo TIL there was a petition to rename and Austrian village named Fucking. Tarsdorf municipality's mayor decided to keep the name as it had existed for 800 years and further stated that "[e]veryone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking—and it's going to stay Fucking."
kOxE4 TIL in 1953 four editors from the Harvard Crimson newspaper stole a birdsh*t covered ibis statue from their rival- the Harvard Lampoon. The editors talked their way into a meeting with the Soviet Ambassador, and gifted the ibis to the USSR as ‘symbol of the universality of the search for truth'
VM5bm TIL that prior to 1976, Oklahoma had a lower drinking age for women than for men