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TIL that Kurt Cobain trolled the attendees at a concert by playing the opening chords to “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, but never actually performing the entire song, after misogynistic chants were thrown at an all-female band, Calamity Jane, earlier in the show.

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jNPxj TIL of the Wolfskinder (wolf-children). As the Red Army occupied East Prussia, 2 million German civilians fled. Many adults were killed, leaving behind ~45,000 young children who ran into the forests where they lived as scavengers.
Ayln TIL King Mithradates of Pontus had a flock of ducks who consumed poisonous plants and didn’t die (thus making them useful for creating antidotes); however their blood, meat, and eggs could kill you if you ingested them
4X9w5 People like to imagine that they’re the pinnacle of evolution, but the animal kingdom suggests otherwise. The discovery that bumblebees use hair on their legs to detect a flower’s electromagnetic field offers another reminder that human senses don’t always measure up. You share the planet with creatures that can smell veins, see colors you can’t imagine, and communicate through their feet. Here are just a few animals with senses sharper than yours.
awRnJ TIL that an owl’s eye color tells you when they are most active. Dark eyes mean most active at right, orange eyes mean most active at dusk and dawn, and yellow eyes mean most active during the day..
e0NJg TIL Lord Tennyson wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" honoring soldiers that fought in the Crimean War. 37 years later Rudyard Kipling wrote "The Last of the Light Brigade" about the hardships faced by the veterans. Kipling hoped to shame the public into offering financial assistance.