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TIL snakes can fly. They undulate their body to stay stable in the air.

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e0144 TIL that the blind/visually impaired and those with motor issues qualify for the entire library of Congress audiobook and braille collection for free. You don't have to be completely blind qualify, you just have to have the backing of a qualified professional and demonstrate proficient need.
p8o6A TIL: The term "Hat-Trick" was first coined in cricket, in 1858, to describe H.H. Stephenson's taking three wickets with three consecutive deliveries. Fans held a collection for Stephenson and presented him with a hat, bought with the proceeds. The term was used in print for the first time in 1865.
5ELR TIL ants can combine multiple colonies into “Supercolonies” which contain multiple queens. One of the largest on record included an estimated 306 million worker ants and one million queen ants living in 45,000 interconnected nests.
kJ4Zg TIL that in 2005 burglars stole $71.6 million from a bank in Fortaleza, Brazil by setting up a fake landscaping company near the bank and digging a 256ft tunnel beneath two city blocks to the bank over 3 months. Neighbors noticed vanloads of soil removed daily but assumed it was business-related.
RaD8 TIL There’s a thing called “Rubber duck debugging” in which a programmer explains the code to an inanimate object in hopes of finding the bug