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TIL Scientists discovered in 2015 that Boa Constrictors kill their prey by cutting off their blood supply, not by suffocation like it was originally assumed.

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XbRk Til Douglas Williams, an administrator of Lie Detector Tests for the OK City PD, has spent the last 35 years trying to expose the fact that they don’t work and are easily defeated with a technique (explained in the vid) learned in under 2 minutes.
VMQd0 TIL that only the outer layer of tree trunks are alive. The center of the trunk is technically dead but it will not decay or lose strength while the outer layers are intact. A piece of the dead core 12" long and 1" by 2" in cross section set vertically can support a weight of twenty tons.
ZQlR TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, former premier of the Soviet Union, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial
pmMZ TIL that in 2010, newly elected mayor of Reykjavik Jon Gnarr announced that he won’t form coalition with anyone who hasn’t seen all five seasons of ‘The Wire’.
95xB TIL Only about 60-80% of your height is due to genetics, the rest is mainly due to nutrition.