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TIL that reindeer are unable to walk and pee at the same time, so they have to take a bathroom break roughly every 6 miles. The distance between stops is so regular that in Finnish, this distance is known as “poronkusema” or “reindeer’s piss” and was a description of distances in the countryside.

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Brp7r TIL of flight attendant Barbara Jane Harrison. After her plane went up in flames, she helped passengers out and after the slides were punctured, pushed them out to safety. She was just about to leave when she turned back into the burning plane to help more passengers, which cost her her life.
X5JD TIL in 2006 Honda become the sole supplier of engines in the IndyCar series, It was for the first time in Indianapolis 500 history, the race was run without a single engine problem.
WkeGX TIL of Australian Soldier Jim Moody, who smuggled Horrie, his battalion's mascot back to Australia after WWII, violating quarantine laws. Ordered to surrender Horrie to be destroyed, he purchased another dog from a pound and surrendered it, and Horrie lived many years.
6EvQm TIL- Bees don't buzz during an eclipse - Using tiny microphones suspended among flowers, researchers recorded the buzzing of bees during the 2017 North American eclipse. The bees were active and noisy right up to the last moments before totality. As totality hit, the bees all went silent in unison.
a8jrA TIL that young female chimpanzees in the wild play with sticks like dolls, revealing possible biological and social roots for gendered play behaviors