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TIL Bells on collars seem to reduce the amount of prey caught by 50%+.

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WKvB TIL: Banana flavored candy tastes that way because that’s how bananas tasted until the 1960s, when a fungus wiped out that strain of bananas. Today another fungus threatens the strain of bananas we eat.
xVbAb TIL There are hardly any publishing houses devoted to African languages while prizes given to promote African literature have the condition that the writers don’t write in African languages. South Africa is one of the few countries where publishers are committed to publishing African languages
PalV TIL that the Venus sisters challenged a male tennis player ranked 203rd in the world to a match but lost 6-1 and 6-2.
neoRr TIL Your body automatically stuffs and un-stuffs alternating nostrils so you only use one nostril at a time. This is called the "nasal cycle."
166mr TIL The only children to survive the Titanic without a parent were two brothers aged 2 and 4. Their father kidnapped them from his ex-wife and boarded the ship with a fake name. The father didn’t survive and for weeks the boys were known as the Titanic Orphans until their mother was found.