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TIL that snakes can detect earthquakes up to 5 days before one happens.

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Bg6jd TIL in an effort to produce a non-addictive version of morphine, Charles Romley Alder Wright was the first person to create heroin in 1874.
78PoZ TIL that the longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long and describes a type of lung disease. The longest "word" stands at 189,819 letters long and would not fit in the title of this thread.
OGa5L TIL that The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the only film to get more than 10 Oscar nominations (11, to be precise) and won all.
loEl5 TIL that the "tires" on the Apollo lunar rovers were made of a woven mesh of zinc-coated piano wire with titanium treads to keep them from sinking into the lunar soil. The tracks they left are only 1/2" deep.
v11kB Cutting back on red meat is probably the best place to start, but eating the right types of veggies is important, too.