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TIL that praying mantes eat hummingbird brains:

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M7MDV TIL that the melody of one of my favorite love songs of the 1960’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love” by Elvis was largely inspired by a popular French love song “Plaisir d’amore” which was composed in 1784.
pL4p TIL in one episode of The Golden Girls, Betty says “What if there’s only one of us left?” Ironically she’s the last surviving Golden Girl and the girls sit in the order of who dies first.
AbY7 TIL that scientist (Dr. Robert G. Heath) at Tulane University discovered the “pleasure centers” of the brain by zapping it with electricity in the 1950s, giving a woman a 30-minute orgasm.
XAl8 TIL that a man graduated from Columbia after performing his janitorial duties at the school full-time for 12 years.
mdMY TIL That Mississippi Only Just Ratified the 13th Amendment, Which Banned Slavery, In 1995.