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Til that some woodpeckers will drink out of hummingbird feeders

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ne1EG TIL that in 2018, a woman in San Diego gave birth to a premature baby weighing only 8.6 ounces with a gestational age of only 23 weeks and 3 days. The baby is now perfectly healthy, making her the lightest birth-weight baby to ever survive.
ne7BP TIL when poisonous frogs are fed zoo diets they no longer become poisonous. The wide variety of food in the wild supplies them with the chemicals for making poison.
R5gN6 TIL that two players on the New York Yankees traded families in 1973, including swapping wives and even their children! Both players simply swapped lives with their teammate.
kOr6d TIL: In the United States the reason voting takes place on a Tuesday is in 1845 it could take rural farmers up to a day of travelling by horse and cart to get to a voting station. Wednesday was typically market day and Sunday was the Biblical Sabbath so Tuesday was chosen to allow ample travel time.
51DR TIL when New York City Hall was renovated in 1903, a secret stairwell was discovered, said to be used by aldermen to escape the building when angry constituents were waiting for them outside