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TIL: Grasshopper Mice have adaptation to turn scorpion venom into a pain-killer. They now prey on scorpions.

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m4BR TIL that the webcam was invented so that Computer Scientists at Cambridge University could see whether the coffee pot was full or not from different rooms.
JVmm TIL Lyndon Johnson liked to scare visitors to his ranch by driving his amphibious car downhill into a lake while shouting “The brakes don’t work! The brakes won’t hold! We’re going in! We’re going under!”
WjlY TIL: In 1978 Soviet Geologists found a family of six surviving in the middle of Siberia who hadn’t seen another human since 1936.
oB0mL TIL that Cynethryth, wife of Mercian King Offa, is the only Anglo-Saxon queen known to have coins issued in her name.
D1kVg TIL that chimney sweeps use to use live geese to sweep chimneys.