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TIL that Melanophila beetles (known as fire chaser beetles) are able to sense forest fires from 80 miles away and seek them out since burnt wood is the source of nutrition for their young

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R7Ze8 TIL In 2011, Jackie Chan codirected and starred in a film called 1911 to commemorate the centennial of the Xinhai Revolution, which ended two centuries of the monarchal system in China. Chan played military commander Huang Xing and has two battles
awgm9 TIL of Cliff Young, a 61 year-old Australian farmer, who won a 875 km (544 mi) 1983 ultra marathon from Sydney to Melbourne by running for 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes. He did this in overalls and boots—and without his dentures, which he said rattled in his head when he ran.
KO1rQ TIL Johnny Cash worked as a radio operator in the US Air Force and was the first person to learn of Stalin's death when he received and decoded the Morse code transmission being sent out globally from Moscow.
e07Xk TIL Gun suppressors only reduce damage to ear drums. They do not make gunshots silent
jNNLQ TIL: That the song Wagon Wheel that country singer, Darius Rucker, made famous was written by Bob Dylan and Kech Secor of the band Old Crow Medicine Show.