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TIL that opossums don't actually "play dead", but under intense fear they will pass out involuntarily and will start reeking of death.

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6ngw TIL during the 1936 Olympics, Liechtenstein and Haiti realized their national flags were identical. A gold crown was added to Liechtenstein’s as a result.
R5DK8 TIL about Helibacon, a TX company that will take you up in a chopper to hunt wild hogs with machine guns🤯😂
kJPed TIL the pearlfish can live inside a sea cucumber's anus when it dilates to breathe. They also eat the gonads, along with other organs. Sometimes 5 or more can be in one sea cucumber.
OopE4 TIL that actor Humphrey Bogart was a veteran of World War I, serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Leviathan. Too old to reenlist in the Navy during World War II, he volunteered for the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve.
5aXB TIL of a theory that says society has 4 stages of approx 20 yrs: High (strong institutions; low individualism), Awakening (strong activism & art), Unraveling (distrusted institutions; strong individualism), and Crisis (destroy institutions for national survival). We’re in the Crisis stage.