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TIL (some?) butterflies in drink turtle tears for dietary sodium.

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B84L TIL “Night of the Living Dead” (1968) is part of the public domain because the distributor forgot to put a copyright notice on the title card
JYnrk TIL a man robbed two bank after covering his face in lemon juice, which he believed would hide him from the cameras because it was "invisible ink". His case led psychologists to describe the Dunning-Kruger effect, where ignorance leads people to overestimate their knowledge.
QQjE TIL Japan, like the US, has no “official” language.
BgWWx TIL the last known Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription is the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, written in 394AD; it invokes the deity Mandulis to keep the inscription safe for "for all time and eternity"
VMo6G TIL of the "Blue Java" banana, a hardy, cold-tolerant banana said to have a consistency like ice cream and a flavor similar to vanilla.