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TIL it is the tradition in Sri Lanka for children to throw their baby teeth onto the roof of their house in the presence of a squirrel.

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MeR7a TIL Cats that have saggy bellies aren't just fat. It's called the 'Primordial Pouch' and helps protect them during fights by allowing them to move easier when running and jumping.
D1W5Y TIL: The light atop a Hollywood record company building has been quietly blinking-out messages in Morse code since first being turned-on in 1956 --by Morse's own granddaughter. (The default message is one word, but it once revealed an album release date: “Katy Perry. Prism. October 22, 2013.")
d81ld TIL that when Leslie Nielsen died, ESPN published an obituary for Enrico Pallazzo, the umpire he played in The Naked Gun
WV04 TIL that Pyotr Nesterov was both the first pilot to fly a loop in an airplane and the first to destroy an enemy aircraft in flight. He died during the latter attempt because planes did not have weapons and he had to ram it.
vG4L TIL a Canadian Research Firm has developed Invisible Camouflage, and is sharing it w/ the U.S. Government.