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TIL female frogs play dead to avoid mating with males

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vnl8 TIL JRR Tolkien’s great granddaughter, Ruth Tolkien, is the only blind person in the UK to be a competitive fencer. She is currently ranked the 186th best fencer in the country.
vPPWD TIL Our Sun can make a total of 80 different elements: helium and then everything from carbon through polonium, but nothing heavier. For that, you need a supernova or a neutron star collision. Of all the types of naturally occurring elements here on Earth, the Sun can make about 90% of them.
epRl6 TIL that the Yellowstone Park "Zone of Death" is a legal loophole in a small part of Yellowstone Park. A man was tried for an elk's murder in the Idaho section. The Sixth Amendment guarantees a fair trial by a jury in the area, but no jury can be assembled as nobody lives there, making crimes legal
dv7K TIL that birds are by far the most abused type of animal in the United States. All birds — egg-laying hens, meat chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and others — are excluded from all federal animal protection laws.
rRVGd TIL in 1898, some 73% of Alabama's entire annual state revenue came from convict leasing.