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TIL that arctic shrews are so territorial that whenever two are placed together in a cage, one will mysteriously die within a few days

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x6Bgo TIL: On November 12th, 1970, The Bhola Cyclone hit the country of Bangladesh and killed over half a million people in one day. Millions more died in the aftermath of the storm, including a famine, a genocide, and a war that was close to nuclear Armageddon.
VBvm4 TIL a boy born without a brain lived until age 12 before passing away.
APW7 TIL a barcode scanner reads the white bars, and not the black bars
dD9Dr TIL Wendy's can't come to Europe because there's 1 two-table restaurant in The Netherlands that's already called Wendy's. Brilliant story
VMKKk TIL Cats rarely meow at each other, it was rather developed exclusively to communicate with people