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TIL Prairie Dogs Are Squirrels

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woElJ TIL that in order to settle their long standing border dispute Benin and Burkina Faso declared in 2008 that the ~68 km2 area of Koalou/Kourou would belong to neither country. Making it one of the worlds few unclaimed territories.
Y7GgB TIL Betamax had higher quality images than VHS if recorded at the base β1 speed. However, it was rarely offered on Betamax VCRs after 1979 because its recording time on a standard Betamax tape was only 1 hour. So the image quality advantage over VHS was essentially removed for most of the format war
xV61g TIL that oysters can get herpes
J0pQ TIL The walk disturbance (where a person is so worried about how they walk that they may lose balance) may appear with social anxiety, especially when passing a group of people.
DBnv TIL Royal eunuchs in Korea were castrated by applying human feces to the testicles, and having a dog bite them off.