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TIL that in the English Premier League, teams that finish in last place aren't rewarded with the top draft pick, but rather relegated to a lower league, and losing funding.

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Zp7lR TIL that the female moorland hawker dragonfly sometimes plays dead to avoid mating. Unlike some females of some other species of dragonfly, they aren’t guarded by male mates. A single sexual encounter is enough to fertilize all their eggs, and copulating again could damage their reproductive tracts.
ZplZv TIL that the first panty tree first took root in the late 1970s in Aspen, Colorado and started as a protest against the first female ski patroller that then spiraled out of control.
QaM TIL mosquitoes are adapted to ignore side-to-side movement; a resting female permits a finger to approach slowly if the finger moves several centimetres from side to side about once a second. With practice one can use this stratagem to squash resting mosquitoes with high frequency.
QJG9d TIL that ‘The Drinking Man’s Diet’ was the 1960s ancestor to Atkins and paleo. It was based on the observation that alcoholics dranks thousands of calories per day and actually lost weight. It became one of the most popular diets of the decade, selling 2.4 million copies. The author lived 98 years.
kQ07 TIL Will Wheaton suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression. He supports mental health nonprofit organizations in raising awareness for these conditions.