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TIL there are moths that feed on the tears of sleeping birds.

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nW6r9 Today I learned of Baarle-Nassau, a town in the Netherlands which has 22 exclaves of Belgium in it, some of which have exclaves of the Netherlands in them
KX0G TIL that Koko the “talking” gorilla has allegedly sexually harassed female zoo employees
QJv8k TIL The oldest human construction are some Australian Aboriginal Fish Traps (40,000 years old)
nOAY TIL South Korea has governors for the 5 provinces it claims in North Korea
G8bG TIL the 1945 Food and Nutrition Board Paper often quoted statement “humans require roughly 2.5 liters (8 glasses) per day” is only ½ of the full statement. The other half was “we get most of the fluid we need from food and other beverages.”