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TIL that there is a specific bark of a male cheetah that causes females to ovulate.

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yQYK8 TIL the game Candyland was invented by a woman during the polio pandemic. The woman, Eleanor Abbott, was recovering in hospital she created the game to entertain the children in her hospital wing as they were left by family members for long periods of time to recover.
0QYv TIL warheads candies are more acidic than stomach acid and approach the pH level of sulfuric acid.
a86vJ TIL that the human colon holds one of the highest bacterial density recorded in any habitat on Earth, estimated at 10¹¹ to 10¹² bacterial cells per milliliter.
69oyJ TIL in 1996 Georgia considered House Bill 1274, which made provisions to allow for execution by guillotine
R7mVQ TIL that infrared is called infrared because it's below the red on the light color spectrum. Also ultraviolet is called ultraviolet because it's beyond the violet on the light color spectrum.