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TIL that Termites can distinguish between load bearing and non-load bearing timber.

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Kj9G TIL that according to Batman (1989) producer Jon Peters, the famous line in the movie was originally going to be “I’m Batman…Motherfucker!” but Warner Bros. made him take it out.
4Xlyo TIL that Frederic I Barbarrosa drowned in a river in Turkey when his army was heading to Jerusalem.
bokN TIL That Hybristophilia, the sexual arousal and orgasmic response to having sex with murderers and serial killers, “occurs almost exclusively in Women”, making it unlike most other paraphilias.
YpjB TIL that black people saying “aks” instead of “ask” is a ‘Recency Illusion’: the use of “aks” in place of “ask” dates back to the 1600s and Middle English, and is not a recent development.
Ew9o TIL that the Royal Navy’s nuclear-armed submarines run on an outdated version of Windows XP called “Windows for Submarines”