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TIL the whiptail lizard is an all female species, the males have gone completely extinct. They’re not hermaphroditic, the females actually lay, and hatch from unfertilized eggs

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LQMem TIL the Manchineel Tree, is one of the most toxic trees in the world. Contact with its sap can cause blisters, and damage paint on cars. Ingestion of the fruit can cause severe gastroenteritis with bleeding, shock, bacterial superinfection, and compromise airways due to edema.
6EDp7 TIL that the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne from 1977 until 2010 was a Titoist socialist
DQp6j TIL that physical size and metabolism are directly correlated to time perception in all animals. Which may explain part of why you perceive time passing quicker with age.
6Ekrm TIL that there are elections in North Korea, on election day, everyone aged 17 and up is legally obliged to show up to vote. Once it is your turn to vote, you are given a ballot paper with just one name on it, nothing to fill in or cross out, you just take the paper and stick in a ballot box.
JYDy1 TIL J.R.R.Tolkien had a peculiar sense of humor. Along with his friend C.S. Lewis, he once dressed as a polar bear for a non-costume party and would chase neighbors away dressed as an Anglo-Saxon warrior.