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TIL that snakes smell with their tongue 🐍

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9oZQ TIL Louisiana is the prison capital of the world. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is nearly five times Iran’s, 13 times China’s, 20 times Germany’s and is the only US state with an annual average murder rate over twice the national average.
b9BY4 TIL that Manta Rays live in groups of friends that are not necessarily family, a behavior very rare in nature
M7QLm TIL the US didn’t have the $15m to pay France for Louisiana, so they financed it through a banks in London. Napoleon had made the deal with the US to fund his war against Great Britain and Europe. Britain allowed this deal to go through only because they didn’t want France to have their NA territory
XEjNP TIL: that the movie “The Hills have eyes”, is loosely based on the exploits of The Bean clan of 16th century Scotland, whom murdered and cannibalised over 1000 people, with estimates of up to over 5000 in just a 25 year period.
PYxYV Today I Learned that '2001: A Space Odyssey' director Stanley Kubrick wanted to take out insurance with Lloyd’s to protect himself against losses in the event that extraterrestrial intelligence was discovered before his movie was released. Lloyd’s refused.