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TIL Japan measures its cultural output in “Gross National Cool”

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pYnEG TIL that seagulls not only eat other birds and animals, but are cannibals and often eat seagull chicks, even their own.
N7n86 TIL the red velvet ant is a species of parasitic wasp native to the eastern US. It is best known for its extremely painful sting, earning it the nickname cow killer. Female ants lay their eggs on the larvae of eastern cicada killers, and the ant grubs then consume their hosts.
QxDk TIL that in the wake of the Katrina disaster, police from the New Orleans suburb of Gretna blocked desperate evacuees from crossing a bridge over the Mississippi River, turning back hundreds by firing guns in the air over the crowd.
9YXEm TIL Franziska Donner, the First Lady of the Republic of Korea from 1948 until 1960, was Austrian. She met Syngman Rhee at the Geneva Disarmament Conference. Despite a significant gap in age and backgrounds, as well as familial opposition on her part, they were married the following year in New York
XEjkj TIL Futurama's Jurassic Bark Episode Is Based On a True Story