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TIL about the Abbeville Institute, an institution of Southern professors that extol the virtues of the Confederacy. Their leader is tied to the League of the South, a white nationalist group.

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x6XW7 TIL that the snake Pareas iwasakii, which feeds only on snails, has the particularity of attacking only those whose shells are oriented to the right because of asymmetric jaws, favoring de facto those whose shells are oriented in the other direction.
R5xoa TIL Arizona State University is the only university in the world to offer a master of science degree in biomimicry (the study of design modeled on nature).
N7QON TIL In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters ever built
mOpv TIL that there exists a Museum of Bad Art “to celebrate the labor of artists whose work would be displayed and appreciated in no other forum”
wLAM7 TIL about a condition called Trigeminal Neuralgia. It causes severe facial pain. One of the most painful conditions known to medicine and nicknamed "the suicide disease ".