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TIL, all toads are frogs (toad is just a type of frog)

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yKkV TIL country music is positively correlated with suicide rates in metropolitan areas
RMe9 TIL Dexter Holland from The Offspring is a Ph.D candidate at USC and is working on his dissertation on RNA in HIV & Cancer.
LQjXZ TIL in 1917, a chimpanzee escaped from a nearby ménagerie, entered the Élysée Palace and was said to have tried to haul Henriette Poincaré, the wife of President Raymond Poincaré, into a tree only to be foiled by Élysée guards.
m1E8P TIL that after being ousted by the Anschluss and kept in a concentration camp for 7 years the former dictator of Austria, Kurt Schushnigg, became a professor of political science in St. Louis University from 1948 to 1967.
VOgp TIL net-hunter cone snails release sedatives into the water to lull their victims into a deep sleep before engulfing multiple fish at a time in their horrific, tentacle-covered, extensible mouths.