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TIL that woodpeckers avoid headaches by wrapping their tongues around their brains.

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J16rm TIL the Death Camas plant is so toxic that there is only one known pollinator. The plant is visited by a specialist mining bee, which can tolerate its toxins - others are fatally poisoned. One plant species name is Toxicoscordion venenosum var. venenosum ≈ toxic bulb poisonous poisonous.
OoMe6 TIL that in 1917 you could order a belt-fed machine gun from a Sears catalog: "Machine guns are used largely by police organizations, home guards and municipalities in case of riots."
9w67D TIL up until the 70s, movies were only copyrighted for 56 years. This means all movies released in 1966 (and prior) would be in the public domain by now. Instead, it was expanded to 95 years and one must now wait until 2062.
5YLNQ TIL-The Choctaw fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy
9YalX TIL the 1996 video game "Tomb Raider" had a fan-made patch called "Nude Raider" that made Lara naked. The video game publisher got the site hosting the patch shut down. In the sequel, the developers included a secret code that would allegedly make her naked, but it in fact made Lara explode.