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TIL nut theft is a thing amongst squirrels. To avoid it, squirrels will create false nut caches to trick the thieves.

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e0Zo6 TIL there are no Japanese hornets in North Carolina. They are European hornets.
9wZlM TIL Inge Lehmann, who discovered that the centre of the Earth is solid, is also one of the longest lived scientists in history, living to 104 years of age and wrote her last scientific article at 99
R7kal TIL Days before his death Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore and how he came to be like this has remained a mystery. It’s been suggested he may have been a victim of “cooping” in which unwilling participants are drugged and forced to vote for a particular candidate..
ADYnB TIL that in 2006, the US department of defense paid $997.798 for two nineteen cent washers
E1pVP TIL that Hugh Hefner hated porn, so much so that if he found out you (a Playboy model) stripped, or did porn, or did escorting on the side, you were banned for life from working for Playboy