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TIL that NYC approved the use of rat birth control to curb its rat population

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E1NLo TIL if two pieces of the same metal were to touch in space, they would bond and become inseparably fused together. This doesn't happen on Earth, because the oxygen in our atmosphere forms an extremely thin film of oxidized metal on every exposed surface.
4kkAo TIL of 'brood parasitic' Cuckoo Bumblebees - they don't make nests or form colonies; their queens aggressively invade the nests of other bumblebee species, kill the resident queens, and then lay their own eggs, which are cared for by the resident workers.
KPpa TIL German chocolate cake doesn’t come from Germany. The cake took its name from an American with the last name of “German.”
X0ka6 TIL about the Pizzly Bear, a Polar and Grizzly Bear hybrid. This hybrid species isn't sterile and can actually procreate.
KOXP9 TIL At age 9 eminem was knocked unconscious by a childhood bully with a snowball with a hard object inside, and was found hours later in the school bathroom in a puddle of blood. This attack resulted in a 10 day coma that many doctors thought he wouldn't come out of.