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TIL Crows and other bird species will coat themselves in ants. Researchers aren’t sure why birds do this, but have called the process “anting”.

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4kEXR TIL The US Chamber of Commerce tracks how lonely American cities are.
JpmV TIL that Michael Jordan still earns a reported $60 million a year from Nike
DLJ TIL The average person in the world is a 28 year old, Han Chinese, Male
Eyxo TIL scientists in Antarctica have set up a rugby pitch to play on when they want to relax. They have set up teams of American and New Zealand researchers to compete each year for the Ross Island Cup, which New Zealand have won 26 years in a row.
Z8QAR TIL that French Guiana is legally part of France, and not a separate country, in a similar way to Hawaii being legally part of the USA. Technically all maps of France should probably have a window with French Guiana in the corner, the way Hawaii usually appears on maps of the USA.