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TIL foxes use the Earth’s magnetic field to target prey beneath the snow

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e0bV4 TIL Living things such as the jewel wasp can make their victims, cockroaches, into their "zombies".
e0Wgg TIL about "The Great Leveler," a book that argues that the greatest redistributions of wealth in history are during times of war, plague, and catastrophe, citing the Black Death and WWI as "actually suppressing inequality, by raising the price of labour."
ALjo TIL: The makers of Jurassic Park designed a human-sized Raptor (normally via http://ift.tt/1Us3QxY
4kmag TIL the Railroad Commission of Texas hasn't regulated railroads since 2005. Today it mostly regulates the oil and gas industry and gas utilities.
m5mp TIL that the Buccaneers were originally “legal” pirates of the French and English paid to attack Spanish ships in the caribbean. Their name, buccaneer, stemming from the native ‘buccan’, a wooden rack for smoking meats. They were hired pirates who made and ate Jerkey.