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TIL that male garter snakes will mimic female garter snakes in order to be cuddled by other males and steal their heat - a process called ‘Kleptothermy’

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nWo4d TIL that the 1984 song Careless Whisper by Wham! had been previously produced and recorded in 1983 but George Michael did not like the way the saxophone sounded so he decided to have it re-recorded. The earlier recording is known as "Careless Whisper (Jerry Wexler version)".
8ZR8 TIL Of a mechanism from Ancient Greece, similar to an analogue computer, where you could input data and it would give you the planets and stars positions, and could foresee eclipses and moon phases.
wbPE TIL that “Expecto Patronum” roughly translates to “I await a protector” in Latin
QylE TIL that cats (once they outgrow their kitten phase) don’t “meow” to communicate with each other. Meowing is reserved for communicating with their humans.
vZO7 TIL that in 1976 as a show of force after 2 marines were killed by North Korean guards wielding axes who crossed the DMZ, a joint US-South Korean army brigade invaded North Korea in overwhelming force, only to cut down a tree and leave.