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TIL Power lines look like terrifying bursts of light to animals that perceive UV light.

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j645p TIL George Harrison once told John Bonham, “The problem with you guys is you never do ballads.“ The conversation eventually reached Jimmy Page who vowed “I’ll give him a ballad,” and wrote “Rain Song.“
mxmM TIL Sugar Ray Robinson killed a man in the ring. The man he killed was saving up money to buy his mother a house. As a result, Robinson gave the earnings of his following four fights to that man’s mother.
0YRv TIL the British were not always heavy tea drinkers. They only switched to tea after an introduced plant rust wiped out most of the world’s coffee crops in the late 1800s.
Wbw8 TIL that there is a tiny spider that builds large, fake spiders in their web out of debris to serve as decoys.
kODLd TIL the last French soldier to die in WW1 was killed 15 minutes before the ceasefire. He was delivering a message to his unit that soup would be served for lunch.