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

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OW8L TIL psychologist Dan Ariely and others earned the 2008 Ig Nobel prize in medicine “ for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine”
7mxx TIL: The Cuckoo Bumblebee has lost the ability to collect pollen and to rear their brood. Once a female has infiltrated a host colony, she will kill/subdue the queen of that colony and forcibly “enslave” the workers of that colony to feed her and her developing young.
78PD7 TIL that Francis Crozier of the Franklin Expedition fame was among the first people to meet with the survivors of the HMS Bounty mutiny when the British first arrived at the island in 1814.
XwOD TIL if all the LEGO bricks produced were shared out equally every single person on Earth would own 86 LEGO bricks.
d8YD7 TIL the G.W Zoo Comments on youtube are turned off and i'm disappointed...