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TIL shrikes will impale their prey on spikes to eat or save them for later.

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PekJ TIL: While in Womb, Babies Begin Learning Language From Their Mothers
Y7epW TIL that the term 'Wiki' was coined in 1995 by Ward Cunningham after the Wiki Wiki Shuttle bus in Hawaii. Wiki means 'quick' in Hawai'ian.
VyL4 TIL Anderson Cooper visited two bonobo siblings who have been taught to use English through symbols, they requested that he bring pine needles and wear a bunny suit.
wowvW TIL that Slovenia has the most Tractors per capita in the world with 54.2 per 1,000 people
R5Kg4 TIL since none of Francisco Goya's Black Paintings ever received titles by Goya himself, it is unknown if Saturn Devouring His Son really depicts Saturn/Cronus at all, and has been variously interpreted as an inversion of antisemitism or a depiction of chaos and nothingness