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TIL sometimes medication for cats is applied to the inside of the cat’s ear

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PYgKe TIL about the "Small Penis Rule" which authors can use to avoid libel lawsuits. If the author says a character has a small penis, no male is going to come forward and say, 'That character with a very small penis, that's me!'
w7lE TIL that Hydras, tiny freshwater animals, have to rip their own skin apart just to open their mouth
9wV1M TIL there is one volcanic eruption in Iceland every 5 years on average
Oo4b7 TIL a boucanier was a French hunter in the Caribbean who smoked meat on a wooden frame called a boucane. Boucaniers sold their meat to the corsairs operating around the Caribbean. Eventually the corsairs themselves were referred to as boucaniers, later anglicized as "buccaneers".
K079 TIL Pigeons are superstitious. When given food at irregular intervals in a lab, they develop rituals (like spinning in a circle) associated with whatever they were doing before the food arrived.