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TIL primates are the only animals that get a rash from poison ivy.

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e06A4 TIL that, to avoid traumatic brain injury, woodpecker's toungues wrap around their skulls in a small empty cavity, which helps to cushion the blows.
5Y8Ar TIL that the company John Downer Productions makes ultra realistic animal robots to go out into the wild. The robots are able to mimic how the variant of animal would normally act and most of the time gets accepted into that animals group/tribe.
1aW77 TIL the Iroquois Theater in Chicago was billed as "Absolutely Fireproof" in advertisements when it opened. It lasted 37 days before being destroyed in what is still the deadliest single-building fire in U.S. history, leaving 602 dead and 250 injured.
v1BlD TIL: The red flag, when used by pirates, came to mean "no quarter given", meaning that no mercy would be shown, and no life would be spared, while a black flag usually meant that those who surrendered without a fight would be allowed to live.
MeW7 TIL that the fastest temperature rise was 27 °C, 49°F in 2 minutes, the fastest temperature drop was 27.2°C, 49°F in 15 minutes, and both were in South Dakota