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TIL about Agloe, New York, a fake village created by mapmakers as a "copyright trap" to catch plagiarists

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GyaG TIL a moose’s antlers improve their hearing by 19%, indicating that the palm of moose antlers may serve as an effective parabolic reflector
gva4 TIL the last 24 remaining members of a species of giant stick insect were found under a bush on a remote spike of rock off australia
8adlZ TIL about Nikolai Vavilov, a Soviet botanist whose aim was to end hunger worldwide. He collected seeds of wild crops and deposited them in a seedbank in which to produce new strains of crops. Stalin denounced him and used him as a scapegoat for a famine. He died in prison from starvation.
oO6K TIL there is a water filled cave in Nevada that experiences “miniature tsunamis” in response to earthquakes as distant as Japan.