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TIL that places that end in -stan mean "places of" in Persian

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OG4BX TIL Sugar gliders are one of the few species of mammals that exhibit male parental care. The oldest codominant male in a social community shows a high level of parental care, as he is the probable father of any offspring due to his social status.
VBo1B TIL Ohio has a native species of cactus
PoBZ TIL a study showed a shocking 29% increase in drug usage and a 34% increase in tobacco usage among students participating in DARE(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) in America
9wkpB TIL employers are sometimes less inclined to hire somebody who is overweight
6oel TIL nearly 200 years before turducken became popular, there was the Rôti Sans Pareil: a bustard stuffed with a turkey-goose-pheasant-chicken-duck-guinea fowl-teal-woodcock-partridge-plover-lapwing-quail-thrush-lark-ortolan-bunting and garden warbler, the last being just big enough to hold an olive.