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TIL most edible figs have at least one liquified wasp in them

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Z5mo TIL parents in New York who don’t believe in diapers are teaching their babies to poop in the sink or on the street
xVPro TIL that Harry Conick Jr. once played one bar of a solo song in 5/4 timing so that the unsuspecting audience's clapping would be offset to beats 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3, unbeknownst to them
KOMaw TIL in 1993 an American spelunker found evidence of people living in 2 Ukranian caves during WWII. It was 1942, when a group of families survived the Holocaust by seeking refuge in the caves. Nearly 2 years later, someone left a bottled message alerting all of them the area was safe from Nazis.
6907l TIL about the thick-tailed pygmy jerboa, a species of rodent found in China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. They have a head and body length of around 4.5-6 cm, are described as having a large head with small eyes, and live in permanent burrows with multiple passages that can extend for 3 m.
Lk6Ad TIL The giraffe has got the highest blood pressure in the animal kingdom because its heart have to pump hard against gravity in order to reach its head.