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TIL parrotfish eat coral and poop it out as sand, and are responsible for many of the small islands and beaches of the Caribbean.

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yQpPM TIL Yoda, of the Star Wars universe, uses sentences that follow the object-subject-verb pattern. This pattern is only found in 0.3% of the world’s languages. This is called anastrophe, in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.
QWad TIL in 2007 Joshua Bell pretended to be a street violinist and everyone ignored him. Just two days earlier he played in a sold out theater with each seat costing $100. The violin he used on the street was worth $3.5 Million dollars.
8awMV TIL that a coyote pack's yipping affects the size of female coyotes' litters. If there aren't enough coyotes yipping in response when yipping occurs, females will produce larger litters to promote reproductive competition. This is why hunting coyotes isn't effective population control.
dAW7 TIL that Sylvan Goldman, inventor of the shopping cart, had to hire actors to walk around his store pushing shopping carts to convince customers to use them. Men didn’t want to seem feminine by using them and women didn’t want to feel like they were pushing a baby buggy.
BrQOd TIL that the temporary deafness we experience when yawning is caused by the activation of muscles in the ear that function to dampen oscillations in the ear caused by loud sounds and by the difference in the pressure between the two sides of the eardrums hindering the its ability to freely vibrate.