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TIL there’s a parasite that can “hijack” the brain of invertebrates, amphibians, and mammals

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AD5xn TIL about Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, and naturalist who hunted and killed a number of man eating tigers and leopards. One tiger he had killed, the Champawat tiger, had killed an estimated 436 people (the highest number of people killed by a tiger.)
WkvnA TIL that the Great Falls of the Potomac northwest of Washington, DC is the steepest falls in the eastern US and are along the Atlantic Fall Line of the Appalachian Mountains, dropping 76 feet in under 1 mile.
nWr0B TIL Super Cute Tiny Harvest Mice Play in Tulips
Br0Gd TIL that both Britain's current oldest woman and oldest man were born on the same day - 29th March 1908!
eabn TIL the last cipher from the Zodiac Killer, a 340 character code sent to newspapers in 1969, remains unsolved.