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TIL NATO's Article 5 cannot be invoked for an attack on Hawaii or the Spanish exclaves in Africa of Ceuta and Melilla.

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woMkY TIL insects' ability to hear using tympanal ears has independently evolved at least in seven different orders (Orthoptera, Mantodea, Hemiptera, Neuroptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera), involving at least 15 body locations
Br9WW TIL that Jim Carrey's Grinch smile isn't prosthetic or CGI, he can actually contort his face that way.
RE97 TIL that when Queen Elizabeth’s children were pressured to evacuate to Canada during WWII, she declared, “The children won’t go without me. I won’t leave without the King. And the King will never leave.”
x6y80 TIL that Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest, even though he had no connection to the mountain. He objected to the naming because the word 'Everest' could not be easily written in Hindi or pronounced by the local people.
p81Nb TIL that female dogs are more responsible for dead grass spots than males due to congealed nitrogen from squatting to pee opposed to lifting a leg and spreading it out.