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TIL: the US State Department officially recommends that if you travel to Somalia, you first "Draft a will and designate appropriate insurance beneficiaries", "Be sure to appoint one family member to serve as the point of contact with hostage-takers", "review the Live Piracy Report", etc.

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W7QG8 TIL male mole crickets amplify their song with a burrow shaped as a double exponential horn; the song can be heard up to 600 metres away
Je8j TIL that receptive agnosia is an inability to understand music. Sufferers regard music as simply “noise”, often compared to drainpipes or drills, or other invasive forms of background noise.
6KgQ TIL that the mother of a teenager murdered in a 2005 racist axe attack forgave his killers: “Unforgiveness makes you a victim and why should I be a victim?… Hate killed my son, so why should I be a victim too?”
dgBB TIL that while sleeping our sense of smell is turned off, meaning it cannot alert us to dangers such as a fire since we cannot be awoken by the smell.
R7aB6 TIL: America is home to “Body Farms,” places where corpses are just tossed out into nature to rot for scientists to study decomposition and forensics.