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TIL vulpinic acid is poisonous to all meat-eaters but not to mice and rabbits

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x6ADD TIL that Kobe Bryant's Middle Name Is Bean
4X495 TIL The "X" in "Xmas" is an ancient symbol/initial for Christ, not a political/corporate attempt to "remove Christ from Christmas".
y9EV TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.
9YANB TIL that physicist Heinrich Hertz, upon proving the existence of radio waves, stated that "It's of no use whatsoever." When asked about the applications of his discovery: "Nothing, I guess."