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TIL an Ohio woman was sentenced to spend a night in the woods without food, water and entertainment for abandoning 35 kittens

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BrBwD TIL In the Strepsiptera the forewings evolved into halteres while, in the Diptera, the hindwings changed into halteres. Halteres have evolved at least seven times in insects, and in most cases it is known to be associated with improved manoeuvering in flight.
0oe1 TIL a group of stingrays is called a fever.
EXdp TIL there is an accurate 200 acre scale model of the entire Mississippi River Basin (over 800k acres) that was completed in 1966, and subsequently abandoned in 1993.
GArJN TIL the first former F1 World Champion to die of natural causes was Denny Hulme in 1992, 42 years after the inaugural F1 championship season. He suffered a massive heart attack while racing a car.
Yp9Lr TIL that dogs are the only non-primate species with a left-gaze bias. Humans tend to look at the right side of a human face for better facial recognition and dogs respond to faces in a similar way: Dogs also fixate on the right side of a human face, but not that of other animals.