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TIL Madagascar allows travelers from basically every single other country on Earth to enter with a Visa on arrival

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x61Go TIL roly polies are capable of removing toxic metal ions from soil by taking in heavy metals such as copper, zinc, lead and cadmium which they crystallize into spherical deposits in the midgut
P1Y0g TIL Lenora Cazalet, daughter of Jeeves author PG Wodehouse, died after minor gynecological surgery in 1944 London because a German V1 rocket fell near the hospital and overwhelmed them with casualties so no one responded to Lenora's overnight call button pleas to stem her post-op bleeding.
wLpE TIL Mormons believe God has a wife.
x6vNo TIL people from St. Louis like to cut their bagels super weird
El77 TIL that in a 1979 Woolworths fire many of those who died had refused to leave during the crisis, despite the sounding of alarms, requests from staff and even the smell and visibility of smoke; some even continued to queue at an abandoned check-out.