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TIL it’s possible to hallucinate with only a ping pong ball, a red light, and a radio.

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6EDLw TIL the Bagworm Moth Caterpillar is one of the rare architects of the animal world. They construct miniature “log cabins” by collecting little twigs and building them into tiny protective houses which they live in! Some constructions look similar to a strand of DNA.
RvA8 TIL that Timothy Dexter the 18th century American businessman, writer, and noted eccentric, faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter’s mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving enough.
OGAva TIL that John Byrne said that he “unconsciously lifted” the story of the X-Men comic “Days of Future Past” from the plot of the 1972 Doctor Who serial “Day of the Daleks”.
N7yOP TIL The average adult in Indonesia is around 5 feet 1.8 inches tall, making it the country with the lowest average height in the world.
kO5m1 TIL QANTAS Airlines means Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service.