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TIL Birds don't urinate. Instead, they convert nitrogen to uric acid.

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4XBxb TIL of Mary Seacole a Jamaican-born nurse who applied to join Florence Nightingale in Crimea, but was turned down due to her race. Instead of giving up, Seacole sailed to the Crimea at her own expense and set up a hotel to tend to sick and wounded soldiers.
YYWG TIL that animals and their meat have different names (e.g. deer = venison) because the peasants that raised the animals used the animal’s Germanic name while the aristocracy that ate them used the French name.
Z8J7B TIL Ivan the Terrible beat his pregnant daughter-in-law and caused her to miscarry, when his son confronted him he shoved a pointed staff through his sons head and killed him
R59aa TIL - Every episode of Seinfeld had unique an intro theme music. Composer Jonathan Wolff would create music for each, timed around Jerry’s intro stand-up bit.
8elrV TIL: Ohio has 13 counties reporting cases of "zombie deer", as of a month ago & EHD spread from biting midges are to blame