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TIL about the existence of snail kings, which have a left-handed shell-coiling. For common garden snails, researchers estimate the occurrence frequency of snail kings at 1:40,000 individuals.

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vvO4 TIL there are no current statistics on religion in Tanzania. Home to many faiths, its census hasn’t asked about religion since 1967 in order to avoid fights over which was the biggest.
4k07w TIL about Batesian mimicry: a non-poisonous butterfly mimics the bright colors of poisonous ones. Predators avoiding the poisonous colors prey on dark-colored butterflies, favoring the survival of mimics. This increases the frequency of alleles for mimicry in the non-poisonous population.
QJ6K9 TIL, in 1950s, North Korea established a village called Kijong-Dong, also known as the Peace Village, which was designed only for propaganda. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and to this day it has no residents. Western media refer to it as 'Propaganda Village'.
yVWX TIL ancient Egyptian kings would avoid drinking wine because of its resemblance to blood, believing that it was the blood of those who battled the gods and lost - which is why drinking it temporarily drove people out of their senses and made them a little crazy.
awNlL TIL R.E.M. has a song called The flowers of Guatemala, which is about the Guatemalan Genocide. A troubling amount of people in the country still openly deny the genocidal crimes, despite a judicial ruling that condemned them in 2013.