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TIL: Observing Ramadan in northern communities can be much easier or much more difficult depending on time of year (in terms of fasting between sunrise and sunset).

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VMa1G TIL that we’ve had the technology for over a decade to create an embryo using only an egg and stem cells - rendering male sperm unnecessary
1aJKP TIL about George Ray Tweed, one of six men to refuse to surrender to the Japanese on Guam in 1941. 5 were captured & beheaded. He avoided capture for two years and seven months when the USA recaptured the island.
MEoW TIL severing the limb of a Bloodwood tree triggers the same type of response you’d see if you severed a human limb. The damage causes the release of a deep crimson sap that looks alarmingly like human blood; its sole purpose is to coagulate and seal wounds, but has many other medical uses as well.
oMAr TIL that there is a rare snail that was named in honour of Steve Irwin, “Crikey steveirwini.”
8eBL TIL that American cheese isn’t labeled cheese because it’s not real cheese, and that the only difference between the white and orange types is food coloring