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TIL that Harvest Mice like crawling into flowers to eat the pollen and sometimes even fall asleep in them.

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LQAm TIL in the UK, children over the age of 5 can legally drink alcohol, so long as they’re in either their house or a friend’s.
nepvr TIL that the Jaffa cakes were legally classified as cakes back in 1991, rather than biscuits, resulting in a reduced rate of VAT.
nKK7 TIL scientists were monitoring whale stress levels by analyzing their poop and found that their stress plummeted sharply after the 9/11 attacks. After shipping traffic was halted, the oceans quieted down and made it easier for whales to communicate with each other
MwwV TIL that the “B” in “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”, who coined the term “fractal”, stands for “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”.
kO6og TIL in the 1800’s thousands of pigs roamed the streets of NYC, providing the only source of sanitation-eating trash/waste. Children were attacked, pigs held up traffic,carriages fell over. Pigs eventually outnumbered humans-leading to disease and political unrest between upper/lower classes.