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TIL A woodpeckers tongue wraps around its head to prevent it from getting headaches when slamming its face into trees

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r0B0 TIL that in 1975, North Korean embassy staff in Australia crashed their Mercedes, and when they went to the nearest house for help they were aghast to find that that they had knocked on the door of the South Korean ambassador’s residence.
d8vOK TIL that pigeons, flamingos, and male emperor penguins produce crop milk to feed their young.
oVeL TIL that self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graudation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships
697o8 TIL, That Rumi, the famous love and mysticism poet, was actually a Muslim scholar, and it was only after meeting. befriending and sudden disappearance of a man named Shams, that caused such sorrow for him that he wrote more than 3000 sonnets and 40000 verses tributing to him.
6EVp7 TIL that after 2 years of using a Catalan mercenary company to fight the Turks, the Byzantine emperor betrayed the company and tried to wipe them out in 1305. The mercenaries went on a rampage so destructive that the monks of Mount Athos only lifted their ban of Catalan citizens in the year 2000.