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TIL That Magpies hold funerals for their dead

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P1d6L TIL The urine of the Maned Wolf has a very distinctive odor, which some people liken to hops or cannabis. The responsible substance very likely is a pyrazine, which also occurs in both plants. In 2006 at the Rotterdam Zoo, this smell once set the police on a hunt for cannabis smokers.
nen6d TIL Matches were originally made with white phosphorus. This caused workers in match factories to get a condition known as phossy jaw which destroys the bones in the jaw. Due to large amounts of deaths and suicides from white phosphorus matches, they started using red phosphorus instead.
neDGW TIL that Male Northern Darwin frogs keep their developing babies inside their mouths.It scoops them up in their mouths and then spits them out when they are fully formed.
rRnpy TIL That a Paypal Error Led to The World’s First “Quadrillionaire”
yQR0w TIL: To get a warm drink can cold takes20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that ice, it'd be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you put salt in that water, you'd reduce the chill time to just over 2 minutes.