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TIL about "stotting", where some herbivores will jump high in the air with stiff legs to (presumably) signal predators that they are too fit to attempt to catch.

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l774G TIL Sake is more like beer than wine. Beer = water, yeast, hops, malted grain. Sake = water, yeast, rice fermented by Koji fungus (same stuff that turns soybeans into miso)
V7dG TIL Legal drugs now kill more people than heroin and cocaine combined.
DWKV TIL that almost every country participates in “Cloud Seeding”, A method of increasing rainfall from a cloud. Most places use aircraft to disperse something advanced like Silver Iodide or Dry Ice, but Russia tried using Cement and accidentally dropped a 25 Kg sack of cement through somebody house.
DQ5Np TIL that ants are descended from a flightless ancestor of wasps
YpggA TIL that Christopher Columbus, when he heard that one of his men had sighted land in the Americas (earning a lifetime pension for it), claimed that he had seen it the day before but simply not bothered to mention it, and was given the pension instead.