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TIL of hyperparasites, parasites who parasitize other parasites/parasitoids

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16rMW TIL that in New Caledonia, there are marine snakes known as sea kraits which are extremely venomous but also so shy and unlikely to bite that children have been known to play with them.
KOkDa TIL Boulevards of the Marshals: a collection of thoroughfares that encircle the city of Paris, each named after a marshal in Napoleon army.
Odme TIL There is an emergency hotline in the US where you can call and listen to Hall and Oates songs
8aZ4a TIL there is a "zip bomb" that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but 4.5 Petabytes when uncompressed.
eYV4 TIL in the middle ages, people believed witches stole penises and kept them in birds nests or boxes and fed them grain