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TIL that scorpions glow under a black light.

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5V1ZQ TIL during a remodeling project, engineers in China moved an entire bus terminal weighing a total of about 30k tons using hundreds of hydraulic jacks and rolling tracks.
69N7 TIL Soviet banknotes following the Russian Revolution had the Communist Manifesto printed on them in different languages, encouraging workers of the world to unite.
pJ88 TIL Hugh Laurie auditioned for his role in House M.D. by shooting a video in a hotel bathroom. Director Bryan Singer, unaware that Laurie is English, commented “See, this is what I want: an American guy.”
0wjA5 TIL life is really older than the trees in West Virginia. About a century ago, the state was almost completely deforested from farming, logging, and wildfire. Of the 16 million original acres of forest, only 263 remain. Now it's covered in forest again.
GNyg TIL that the Lapp people of Arctic Scandinavia would feed reindeer fly agaric mushrooms, wait for them to pee then drink the reindeer pee for the sole purpose of getting high.