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TIL dragonflies are widely considered to be the most successful hunters on Earth, with observed hunting success rates as high as 97%, significantly exceeding most other predators, including large mammals like lions.

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kOOMB TIL: On the day before the 1996 Presidential election, the NYT Crossroad puzzle had a clue that required knowing the future: "Tomorrows headline". Except, either of the likeliest answers fully completes the crossword
jx5Q TIL A boy who re-created his school as a map on Counter-Strike, is not permitted to graduate as it was a “terroristic threat”
D1yWv TIL of the Mt. Iimori monument, an ancient Italian column that survived Pompeii and was donated to Japan by Mussolini in 1928 to honor nineteen teenage samurai who mistakenly committed suicide on the mountain in 1868 after falsely believing their domain had lost a battle in the Japanese Revolution.
NXxGQ TIL of the Bengal Water Machine, a water capture mechanism resulting from the pumping of shallow subsurface water by millions of individual small landholders.
j6yDa TIL that Wajda's classic "Ziemia obiecana"/"Promised Land" was supposed to be distributed in USA, but according to Wajda distributors there bought the rights only to keep the film out of cinemas. Scorsese's 2013 Festival described it as "one of the most important critiques of predatory capitalism".