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TIL that storks that are bit by arrows while migrating and survive are called Pfeilstörche

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VB5gB TIL in 2006 a man went to a hospital complaining about a headache & was found to have 12 nails (up to 2 inches in length) embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt. Although the nails did not pierce any major blood vessel or the brain stem & he survived with no serious lasting physical effects.
OoJoR TIL when Facebook changed the report category "Embarassing" to "It's embarassing", it increased the report percentage from 50% to 80%
v1Egx TIL that in 2018, Ukraine spent 5-7% of its annual government budget on recovery and cleanup efforts related to the Chernobyl disaster.
6xvY TIL there’s an entire theorem dedicated to why you can’t groom a coconut
a8nV0 TIL when Charles Darwin was sent some flowers from a friend he noticed one flower was extremely long and bet some moth with really long mouth parts exists to pollinate it. A few years later that moth was discovered.