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TIL that some people experience “phantom vibrations” from their phones. Many people feel their phones vibrating even when they haven’t received a notification, a phenomenon caused by the brain expecting stimuli.

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gkLA TIL that a “Cloaca” is an all-in-one hole which serves as a pee-hole + ass-hole + birth hole + in/out sex-hole. Birds have this all-purpose hole, as do some mammals, and 1 in 20,000 humans. Some turtles even breath through it, making it a 5-purpose hole for them.
EgYy0 TIL about the 'zombie ant fungus', A.K.A. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. The spores can permeate an ants exoskeleton, use it as a source of nutrition and take over its biological controls, forcing it to leave the colony and head for more humid climates to facilitate growth and release more spores.
0dmdy TIL that I can use my cruise control set and resume to increase/decrease speed.
PYjog TIL that fathers day varies very much from country to country
w4M6 TIL that J. R. R. Tolkien might have gotten the idea for a ring that makes its wearer invisible from an ancient, Greek story told by one of Plato’s students about a shepherd discovering such a ring on a cadaver in a cave, and then using it to kill his king