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TIL Adult meerkats teach their young to hunt scorpions safely by first presenting them with dead scorpions and then soon after with live scorpions that the adult had already removed their deadly stingers from

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LN00 TIL there is a project called “A Call in the Night” that will call you once a week after 2am and connect you to a random person to discuss your dreams.
xV0a1 TIL of déjà rêvé (from French, meaning "already dreamed") - the feeling of having already dreamed something that you are now experiencing.
GApjj TIL the motorcycle used by Henry Winkler's character "The Fonz" on the show Happy Days was the same bike used to jump the fence by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.
4XD1g TIL that it is illegal to not stop for gas on the German Autobahn, and there's a subsequent fine imposed too. "Running out of fuel is considered an avoidable occurrence, as by law there are petrol stations directly on the autobahn approximately every 50–55 km"
6EPKX TIL that the first Christian marriage in what is now the US was between a white man and a black woman.