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TIL Johnny Cash’s ‘A Boy Named Sue’ was actually written by Shel Silverstein

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ZpaDB TIL 1 out of every 4 animal species on earth is a beetle.
KO6O4 TIL that just like humans, dogs have an oil on their bodies that converts to vitamin d when exposed to the sun. Unlike humans dogs cannot absorb this oil, and must instead invest it via licking and grooming.
jN8ZN TIL group of doctors in the US were developing a technique to buy time in treating lethal wounds by inducing the person into a state of hibernation. The procedure included replacing part of the patients blood with chilled saline solution.
rNDw1 TIL By stating that they were unmarried when they were hired or by not using their married names, some women were able to avoid marriage bars in the 1900s because doing so would expose them to public shame.
MRkA TIL squirrels forget where about 50% of the nuts they have hidden are