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

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WkyQN TIL of the Appalachian Christmas tradition of "sereneding" that involves shooting guns in the air until your neighbor feeds you.
wkBo TIL that it took 5 years to make the stop action movie Wallace and Gromit, taking a whole days worth of work to film one second worth of movie.
kOrp5 TIL Stirling Colgate, heir to the Colgate toothpaste family fortune, was a physicist who proposed the use of satellites for detection of nuclear weapons testing. He went on to conduct research that helped Chandrasekhar win a Nobel Prize after realizing that the satellites were detecting supernovae.
GaZG TIL Usain Bolt demands his ad shoots to be done in Jamaica to bring money to his country
1a9W TIL chest hair grows in mathematical patterns.