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TIL Corn based diets turn hamsters into cannibals.

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Oon6R TIL that a Parsi man named Farrokh Bulsara, grew up in India, and after moving to England changed his name to Freddie Mercury and founded the band Queen.
LQAM9 TIL about Mapinguari, a monstrous jungle-dwelling spirits from Brazilian folklore that protects the forest and animals. It's described as a former human shaman turned into a hairy humanoid cyclops and has a gaping mouth on its abdomen. Some claim it's a modern-day sighting of a giant ground sloth.
67QX TIL the population of 3 cities (Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal) makes up almost 40% of the total population of Canada
BrOMy TIL from the 1860s to the 1928, in some jurisdictions of the Southern United States, prisoners were leased to private businesses
BrEvx TIL that although considered masters of camouflage, cephalopods like Squids, Octopi, and Cuttlefish are in fact colourblind and can modulate their experience of sight.