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TIL "Lepidobatrachus laevis" despite its cute appearance is also known as the "Freddy Krueger frog" due to its aggressive "chomp and hold attitude"

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v1bvB TIL the song "How could this happen to me?" is about a drunk driver
X0m8D TIL that most of Ireland learned the format of seasons based on tradition, and not science, meaning the majority of Irish people categorize different months to different seasons than the rest of the world
OkB1 TIL a monkey’s fist knot is used as the weight in heaving a line between ship and dock. Recognizing their potential, drunken sailors began using them as melee weapons in street and bar fights with the knot eventually being adopted by street gangs of the 19th century.
eprMD TIL that airline pilots routinely fall asleep mid-flight — and in one shocking study, 43% admitted they had woken up only to find their co-pilot asleep too.
xVpNo TIL that trickle down economics was originally called horse and sparrows economics; with the idea being that if you fed a horse a lot of oats, it would excrete the extra in it’s feces which the sparrows could then feed on.