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TIL that several European countries dealt with their rabies problem by air-dropping vaccinated chicken heads for wild foxes to eat.

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YplYA TIL Why do I poop after eating. Gastrocolic reflex is a reaction the body has to eating food in varying intensities. When food hits your stomach, our body releases hormones. These hormones tell your colon to contract to move food through your colon and out of your body. It makes room for more food.
xZOg TIL in 1974, a man named Phillipe Petit illegally walked across the Twin Towers on a tightrope. Upon being arrested by the police, Petit was required to give a free aerial show for children in Central Park, and was granted permanent access to the tower’s observation deck.
RKjw TIL Ray Bradbury initially titled Fahrenheit 451 as “The Fireman”, but while he inquired local fire station about what temperature book paper burnt at, the firemen actually burnt a book and replied that the temp it burnt at was “Fahrenheit 451”.
R7daQ TIL that in the case of discovering aliens, we already have a representative who will handle all communication with them. Simonetta Di Pippo, is the current director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and is the designated person to act as an ambassador to extraterrestrials.
ZpaR4 TIL that Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park was originally an ostrich farm