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TIL that Australia is the only continent with more venomous snakes than there are non-venomous ones.

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7DJX TIL that certain metals (including copper, brass, silver, and gold) are naturally antimicrobial. A brass doorknob will self-sterilize in about eight hours if left untouched.
dDaoB TIL Bed bugs have to feed on human blood about once a week and can live several months without a "blood meal". They aggregate usually within about eight feet of where a person sleeps and can travel more than 100 feet in a single night
4Lp5 TIL that there is a violin made out of stone that is fully playable
7vVP TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a well-read historian who wrote a novel about Sherlock Holmes’s brother, Mycroft. His love of these novels stemmed from the books he read while travelling playing basketball.
grwP9 TIL That going postal is an American English slang phrase referring to becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment. The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1986 with the United States Postal Service (USPS).