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TIL female praying mantis will often decapitate a male before sex, and sometimes eat the rest after

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WkXAL TIL when Mark, a Texan plumber, traded in his F150 in 2013, the dealership asked him not to remove the decals. Somehow the truck made it to the hands of Islamic militants, and Mark's truck with his decals appeared in propaganda videos. In one day, Mark received over 1000 calls and death threats.
4wE6 TIL: In the 1980s, when the Navy found out about the slang term “Friend of Dorothy”, which gay men used for secretly identifying each other, they launched an enormous witch hunt, as they thought there was actually a woman named Dorothy who ran a massive underground homosexual military personnel
pYMkp TIL The average age at marriage in England has been around 25 since the 16th century. It was at its lowest in the 1960s, when people married in their early 20s. It has never fallen below 20.
9YKPB TIL that there is a difference between an acronym and an initialism. An acronym is when the initials of the words form a new word (e.g. NATO = Nayto) and an initialism is when the initials do not make a new word but are instead read out individually (e.g. BBC = B B C)
Mep68 TIL dogs are red-green color blind and 20/75 vision