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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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xVemB TIL Mackinac Island, MI is culturally preserved in time and has banned motorized vehicles for over 100 years; most travel by horse-drawn carriages and bikes.
E5JW TIL that the reason we say “redhead” instead of “orangehead”“ for hair color is because English didn’t differentiate between the colors until the 1540s, long after the term was coined.
jNN6Q TIL Tobasco sauce is made from mashed peppers that have been aged in oak barrels for at least three years. This process makes the flavor more mellow. [2:30]
ylgJ TIL an American psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed an insane experiment called the “Pit of Despair”, which involved socially isolating young monkeys for up to a year at a time. The monkeys developed psychosis, would cannibalize on their offspring, and also commit suicide
QJQKL TIL that the city of Hamburg in Germany has a total of 2,496 bridges, which is the most of any city in Europe and many more than cities like Venice, Amsterdam and Saint Petersburg. This has led to Hamburg being referred to as "the Venice of the North".