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TIL that Dragonflies have 6 legs but cannot walk.

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MeAla TIL that the there is video of the man (known colloquially as "Tank Man") temporarily halting the advance of tanks into Tiananmen Square. Today marks the 30th anniversary of this incident.
GA9MQ TIL: That in Southern India the elderly are regularly killed by their families using coconut water. The practice is called Thalaikoothal.
d8MyZ TIL Living above the third-floor drastically reduces your chances of surviving a cardiac arrest.
grrj7 TIL that Mushrooms have their own language. A professor at the University of the West of England found in his lab that the electrical signals of four species of fungi pulse in patterns that are similar in structure to human languages.
VMMGZ TIL African wild dogs actually have a hunting success rate of 15.5%, not 85% like previously assumed.