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TIL: hummingbirds use spider silk to build their nests

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xVWlk TIL that in 2013 a Brazilian ref and player got into a fight over a red card. The ref drew a knife and fatally stabbed the player, and in response, the crowd beheaded the ref and mounted his head on a pike in the field.
d8Y5r TIL there's a Japanese museum of rocks that look like faces
0ljN TIL that Holland has a defensive strategy of submerging the whole country in case of foreign invasion.
jmbQ TIL since 1944, there’s a ship with 1.4 Kilo tonnes of vaguely live bombs lying in the Thames river in London.
W9Bo TIL In 2001 54 wine experts were given 2 glasses of same white wine, one dyed red with food coloring. Not one noticed it was the same wine.