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TIL the verb "to self-destruct" was coined and popularized solely by the original Mission: Impossible television series in the 1960s.

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xVmmB TIL that Opossums can survive up to 80 rattlesnake and coral snake bites. Thanks to them, there is a new and very inexpensive antidote for many different snake venom. In addition, they eat ticks and don't get rabies.
X0ZdP TIL Manfred Clyne proved human emotions to be transmissible via a recording of pressure sensitive clicks. Aborigines in Central Australia were able to correctly identify emotions from sounds derived from the touch of white urban Americans
ldJA TIL there’s a town in Norway (Rjukan) that’s in shadow for three full months of the year. As a result, townspeople have built giant mirrors on the mountainside to reflect natural light on their homes.
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