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TIL Hungry foxes have been known to urinate on hedgehogs to force them to unroll before eating them.

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Qmx6 TIL that scientists have discovered colonies of worms living in mounds of methane ice at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
x6kxb TIL About Taro and Jiro, a pair of Sakhalin Huskies who survived 11 months in Antarctica after being chained to the other 13 members of their sled team and abandoned.
xVgO7 TIL about the Steinway Tower, 111 West 57th, the thinnest skyscraper in the world. The tower is the 3rd tallest in New York (1,438ft /84 story) with a width-to-height ratio of 1:24. The 60ft-wide base is less than the length of a tennis court (78ft)
K0M6 TIL: The US leads in Medical Errors, making our costly health less safe than other ‘free’ systems.
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