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TIL The excessive drool during nausea is to protect your throat, mouth & teeth from the acidic vomit

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5RLQ TIL a Malaysian women spent over a month in a box full of over 6,000 scorpions. She only got stung 7 times.
P1a0w TIL the vulture population of India has fallen from 40 million to only 19,000 in just 30 years. This has been attributed to livestock being administered a drug poisonous to the bird, and has resulted in livestock formerly eaten by vultures now left to rot in fields, contaminating the water supply.
NX0aJ TIL that flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down
x6Q1g TIL that chainsaws were invented for childbirth
dZkZ TIL Australia fought a war against their own Emus, and lost.