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TIL that Japanese great tits have a unique alarm call for crows, martens and snakes

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MeW TIL because humor comes from seeing things from a novel angle and self-deception reduces such angles, self-deceivers have a poorer sense of humor.
le6a TIL that after declaring bankruptcy, Japan Airlines flight attendant uniforms were sold to the local sex industry after becoming highly sought after by fetishists.
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.
e0QL6 TIL about Gustave, an 18 foot, 2,000 lb man-eating Crocodile that is rumored to have eaten over 300 humans.
OoQ7g TIL that McVitie's produced a giant Jaffa Cake in court to prove it's a cake in order to be charged less tax as biscuits are taxed at a higher rate.