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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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OGYKX TIL The US Geologic Survey analyzes twitter data that can often identify earthquakes faster than their own sensors as well as filter out false positives from their sensors.
WkZvd TIL the first-ever professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, went undefeated for their first 71 games.
6E8nZ TIL that the grandfather of the multi-Oscar winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho was a famous Korean writer. He defected to North Korea to write and teach at a university there but he was purged a few years later.
4K7w TIL that Anthony Lane, a film critic for the New Yorker, once began reviewing ‘Contact’ (1997) and noted it “v. gloomy,” “odd noir look for sci-fi,” “creepy shadows in outdoor scene,” before realizing he had forgotten to take off his sunglasses.
grWYy TIL in 1988, the experimental group Negativland put out a press release claiming their tour was cancelled due to their music being linked with David Brom's axe murder of his family. In reality, the cancellation was due to lack of funds. This did not, however, stop news reporters taking up the story.