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TIL that the Northern cardinal can biologically suppress the West Nile virus upon infection.

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lodv7 TIL about DOOMSCROLLING. The act of obsessively checking online news for updates, especially on social media feeds, with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that the feeling of dread from this negative.
QMaM TIL Googlewhacking is a challenge/activity where you enter two words in the search bar for Google and try to end up with only one search result. There are over 482,000 googlewhacks recorded.
4X6BJ TIL Half a watermelon in Barrow, Alaska costs $36.96 in late 2017
xVlY7 TIL a child is 16 times safer riding to school in a school bus than in a family vehicle
rNAr4 TIL Techniques in astronomy of taking images of the sky are being used by dermatologists to monitor melanoma in high-risk patient who have their full body photographed. A patient’s skin is treated like the background sky in an astronomical image, and any moles are treated as stars