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TIL that chipmunks are omnivores and occasionally eat birds and even mice.

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OKy6 TIL inhabitants of North Sentinel Island have been there for 60,000ish years, remain completely untouched by modern civilization and kill outsiders who get too close.
robe TIL Nancy Astor told Winston Churchill “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea,” to which he responded, “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.”
eprk TIL there is a “zip bomb” called 42.zip that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
X0XpX TIL about Boontling, a hyper-localized jargon/lingo. Originating solely in the small Northern California community of Boonville during the 1890's, the argot (secret slang) has less than 100 speakers today.
grmAW TIL that the person who published the first map with the word America, later tried to change the continent's name to Parrotland.