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TIL Dragonflies are brutally effective killers, managing to capture their prey in midair more than 95 percent of the time

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786P TIL, Freddie Mercury used to call his maids while touring and insist on talking to his cats
gr0Mb TIL that grunion fish have unusual mating habits. The females will burrow tail-first into the sand up to their necks so that only their heads stick out. Then a bunch of males will squirt their sperm onto their heads. The sperm trickles down their bodies to reach the eggs below them.
ebDJ TIL China is leading world efforts in Molten Salt Reactor technology (safer nuclear power), hoping to commercially deploy them by 2030.
xXnw TIL Australian ABC’s Rage is the oldest music television program currently still in production
LDMP TIL that a married couple in Bosnia started cheating in online chatrooms. When they decided to meet in person, they realized they had been cheating on each other–with each other.