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TIL How Bird Poop Built an Island Empire (and Destroyed It)

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X0vpP TIL that the Dutch Caribbean, speaks a Portuguese-based creole (Papiamentu) and English as the majority spoken languages. Although Dutch is widely taught and known among locals.
R7k9w Blood type, metabolism, exercise, shirt color and even drinking beer can make individuals especially delicious to mosquitoes.
7rrmL TIL Oyster Mushrooms (white edible mushrooms that grow on dead trees) are carnivorous. They have microscopic lassos that attract nematodes with a chemical, then constrict around the nematode and release a toxin that paralyzes the nematode so they can absorb nitrogen from them.
D1kaD TIL that it took 80 years from the invention of the telephone for call centres to become a mainstream part of business
b9Zg4 TIL Garlic knots were first created as a way to reuse pizza dough scraps, and were invented at the first pizzeria to ever have toppings on their pizzas.