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TIL Taliban leader Mullah Omar lived close to US bases when he was one of the most wanted men in the world

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gM5Kb TIL the rainbow grasshopper (Dactylotum bicolor) is native to the United States, Canada and northern Mexico. When threatened, it exhibits aposematism or warning coloration to mimic brightly colored stinkbugs which lizards avoid. Studies show that birds find rainbow grasshoppers to be distasteful.
n84P TIl Australia and New Zealand have never had rabies
NXZMJ TIL Kelly, a dolphin, was rewarded with fish by her trainers for bringing them litter and dead gulls to clean her pool. She began hiding fish under a rock in her pool and used them to lure gulls, which she then brought to her trainers to receive more fish. She even taught her calf the same strategy.
gMomb TIL that the Chinese government, worried about potential national embarrassments due to the behavior of tourists abroad, had the China’s National Tourism Administration publish an information packet titled, roughly, the Guide to Civilized Tourism and Travel.
0Mvv TIL a man jumped 500 feet from a tour helicopter to commit suicide because “he was unable to get surgery for a chronic health condition he suffered with for the past 15 years” at age 61