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TIL the Seoul Subway has heated seats
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TIL Common ravens have been observed calling wolves to the site of dead animals. The wolves open the carcass, leaving the scraps more accessible to the birds.
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TIL that after Encyclopedia Britannica stopped its publication in 2012, ending a 244 year run of published volumes, World Book remains the only encyclopedia still in print
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TIL The Poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was in fact about a little girl, Mary Sawyer, from Boston whose little lamb followed her to school one day in 1816.
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TIL the term “loophole” comes from the name given to small windows in castles, where archers shot at attackers without the fear of being hit. At first meaning a small opening in a seemingly impenetrable defense, the term evolved to mean a spot where the law can be exploited without actually broken.
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TIL Original hosts usually have low death rates when infected with a pathogen, with fatality rates tending to be much higher in new hosts