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TIL there's a snail with an iron-plated foot

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a8JwJ TIL the rufous treepie, a bird in the raven family, has learned to steal lit candles from a temple in India. The candles use clarified butter for fuel so the treepies fly inside, grab one and fly away. Then they remove the wick and extinguish it before eating it and the butter.
LQX6V TIL that 95 percent of southern Louisiana is corporate owned.
9e9G TIL That the president does not actually have to “pardon the turkey”, he can still ask to have it cooked for him
VBJR8 TIL about Janessa Brazil, thought to be the most impersonated person in the world whose images have been used to catfish men countless number of times
nWDvr TIL Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport was the world's first airport to hit 100 million passengers in year, doing so in 2015