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TIL Burglars defecating in premises they have robbed is a common occurrence and has been the subject of scientific study

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D1mJe TIL mincemeat doesn't actually have any meat in it at all! (And I've been missing out on a delicious fruity pie all my life because I thought it was a savory meat pie ????)
OGkxg TIL the hippocampus has a kind of internal switch that flips the brain between "learning mode" and "remembering mode".
nWa1r TIL Chad Kroeger wrote the 2003 hit "Why Don't You & I," for Santana and sang vocals on the album version, but his record label didn't want his voice on the single because they thought it could overshadow their upcoming Nickelback album release, so he recommended Alex Band of The Calling
M7ga8 TIL How indigenous people shaped Australia’s curious geography of plants
5YZ9Q TIL that there is a star called "UY Scuti" with a diameter 1,700 times larger than that of the Sun's. It's so big that if placed at the center of our solar system its surface would reach past the the orbit of Jupiter and it would take a commercial airliner over 1,000 years to fly around it.