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TIL Valerian Rybar, an American interior designer, lined the walls of his dining room with 400 bound leather books, all fake, but with titles relating to various chapters of his life. One, entitled "International Boredom", allegedly alluded to his ex wife.

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9KBD TIL There is a wasp that lays its eggs inside ladybugs. The ladybug lives normally until the wasp larva emerges, immobilizes it, and builds a cocoon on the ladybug’s leg. The ladybug remains alive in a zombified state, and will even fight off predators, allowing the cocooned wasp to safely mature.
GYyDN TIL in 2008, MI5 released a 14-page document warning British businesses of Chinese “honeytraps”- that Chinese intelligence would use “sexual relationships and illegal activities to pressurize individuals to co-operate with them”, to gain access to computer networks.
WlJB TIL in 2014 a British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded.
p8weO TIL that birds that habitually perch in trees hop, because it is not practicable to walk from twig to twig, while those that spend much of their time feeding on the ground walk.
A8Zo TIL there are 20 dogs on the Moscow Metro that have learnt how to use the system as a means of commuting