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TIL Vulture Bees exist, a type of bee that feeds on carrion

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XEd7X TIL of an experimental treatment for tinnitus: bimodal neuromodulation, electrical stimulation of the tongue paired with sounds. Pairing zaps with sounds seems to rewire brain circuits connected with tinnitus. The theory is to make an auditory system more hyperactive to everything but the tinnitus.
6EkYw TIL that KGB spy Oleg Lyalin was caught when he was pulled over for drunk driving and bragged to the police officer that he was a KGB spy. He went on to defect, exposing over 100 other spies in England.
E1jG0 TIL, South Korea is the world leader in internet connectivity. Approximately 95.1% of the country’s population are internet users, and they boast the world’s fastest average connection speed. The government established policies and programs that facilitated the rapid expansion and use of broadband.
QN0xM TIL there is a widespread belief that copperheads (a species of venomous snake, Agkistrodon contortrix) smell like cucumbers
MZk7 TIL Kindergarten (literally “children’s garden”) while both a German word and a German invention widely adopted around the world is, ironically, not usually part of the German state-supported school system.