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TIL There are only 22 countries in the world that the British haven’t invaded or attacked.

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D8re TIL of the smoke filled room experiment, which shows that even if there’s smoke filling a room people will stay for as long as 20 minutes if no one else is reacting to it. Otherwise they’d leave quickly.
b90OQ TIL Malabar Giant Squirrels are real and very colorful!
Ayd TIL, in 1954, just one month after surgery for colon cancer Babe Didrikson Zaharias won the U.S. Women’s Open. This was the last of her 10 major championships and she accomplished it while wearing a colostomy bag.
KOoVQ TIL that there are orchids whose flowers look like female bees. When males try to mate with them, they transfer pollen. The Ophrys Apifera species mimics a bee species that went extinct long ago. So, the only memory of the bee is a painting by a dying flower.
epvPJ TIL: The Original Verse in “Take Me Home, Country Roads” That Was Deemed Too Risqué for Radio Play