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TIL there are HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF LOCUST SWARMING EAST AFRICA!!!!

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69BN7 TIL that cyanide is present in almonds, apricots, apples, oranges, flaxseed, bamboo shoots, and foods containing cassava
b9M4Z TIL that fish are very rarely electrocuted from lightning strikes. Electricoty skims the surface of a body of water. Fish are not electrocuted unless they are surfacing.
45Nb TIL in 2006 two best friends were in an auto accident, in which one friend died. Due to a mixup at the crash scene, each girl was mistakenly identified as the other. After several weeks the mixup was caught and the family that thought they had buried their daughter learned she had actually survived.
OoQ8Y In a new study in Science, a team of linguists at the University of Zurich uses biomechanics and linguistic evidence to make the case that the rise of agriculture thousands of years ago increased the odds that populations would start to use sounds such as f and v. The idea is that agriculture introduced a range of softer foods into human diets, which altered how humans' teeth and jaws wore down with age in ways that made these sounds slightly easier to produce.
0xj1 TIL that in the British run German internment camps of WWI a German born member developed an exercise program that could be done using only one’s own body-weight. His name? Joseph Pilates.