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TIL: Possums are one of the biggest predators of Ticks. They are responsible for killing 90% of the ticks they encounter on a daily basis and have similar grooming habits to a house cat.

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BrLNr TIL that a Detroit school was so understaffed that an 8th grader taught math to his own classmates and to the 7th grade for an entire month.
Wk918 TIL of Frisky, a 19 year old schnauzer-poodle mix who was responsible for saving his owner’s life during Hurricane Katrina. On the brink of death, the dog came up to his owner who had been treading water and nuzzled him, keeping him alert enough to stay alive until the water had receded.
5EM9 TIL 2,4-dinitrophenol, a widely used chemical in industry, is also a powerful weight loss agent with severe side effects. In some people, it can burn food energy so fast that their body isn’t able to expel the heat quickly enough, thus causing them to die by literally burning from the inside out.
kJ5bE TIL when the dunce cap was created by 13th century theologian John Duns Scotus, it was initially conceived as “a reverse funnel for knowledge,” and the hat remained a symbol of intelligence until the 1500s.
jNmmv TIL that in 1970 a grass roots organization known as the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America was launched by mathematician Ira Gessel due to his frustrations over public pay toilets'. He was largely successful in pressuring city councils, lik Chicagos to eliminate the condition to pay for relief