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TIL female frogs play dead to avoid mating with males

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DX5J TIL that a 17 year old survivor of the 2011 Norway attack was arrested, stripped naked and jailed on suspicion of carrying out the attack due to his alleged lack of emotion upon being rescued. He was released after the police discovered he was a traumatized survivor of the Chechen war.
wLlao TIL Sunflower roots are edible both raw or cooked. They are easy to grow and disease-free through heat and drought. [Sunchokes taste similar to water chestnuts and jicama.]
5YjQ9 TIL that sentences with the sole purpose of annoying the reader exist and are called "garden path sentences". They make you go back and read the sentence again, an example is: "The old man the boat"
0dy01 TIL there is species of spider named Aptostichus barackobamai, more commonly referred to as the "Barack Obama trapdoor spider"
R70xQ TIL The past decade has seen a massive jump in generosity, according to recent research. Between 2001 and 2011, giving around the world grew a whopping 240%