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TIL The Eiffel Tower leans very slightly in bright sunlight, as one side is heated by the sun and expands slightly

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yeRv TIL that in Vietnam, it is possible to order a cobra blood wine from restaurant menus - the waiter will take a live cobra, kill it on the spot, drain the blood into a shot glass of rice wine, and top it off with the cobra’s still beating heart for you to gulp down.
6mZZ TIL Seth MacFarlane was originally a writer and animator for classic shows like Johhny Bravo and Dexter’s Lab
VMmm0 TIL that mosquito hawks do not actually eat mosquitos. Instead, the larvae mostly feed on roots of forage crops, turf grasses, and seedling field crops, while adults, if they feed at all, feed primarily on liquids such as nectar.
WkLLY TIL Leafcutter ants do not actually eat the leaves they cut, instead, they use them to fuel their fungus-based agriculture.
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