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TIL certain species of birds have been known to use cigarette butts in their nests as a way to repel mites and other parasites.

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b6rYE TIL about "Refrigerator Women", a trope in fiction where a female character is killed or seriously injured as a plot device to motivate the male characters, an example of which being the death of Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone) at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2
16aoP TIL that the Korean War never ended. Although the fighting between North and South Korea and their respective allies ended in July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, no peace treaty was ever signed, and the two Koreas are technically still at war, engaged in a frozen conflict.
xVKKo TIL When Jimmy Carter got elected President, he got a phone call from Elvis Presley. "He was totally stoned and didn't know what he was saying. His sentences were almost incoherent".
D1dYg TIL that each year, the Queen ceremonially takes a member of Parliament hostage to ensure her safety while she conducts the State Opening of Parliament
kOL9g TIL Some "grammar-nazis" are actually mentally ill. It's called Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.