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TIL A woodpeckers tongue is 1/3 of its body length, and they wrap it around the back of their skull to protect their brain when pecking.

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PY7PO TIL New Zealand’s biggest export sector is its agriculture but its farmers, unlike US and EU farmers, receive zero government subsidies.
5ym8 TIL that in Indiana, Motorcycles at a red stop light only have to stop for 120 seconds, and then they can treat the stop light as if it were a stop sign and proceed through the intersection cautiously. IC 9-21-3-7b-3(D)
JYBD8 TIL of Twilight Sleep, a popular childbirth practice that was supposedly pain-free because it erased the memory of the birth by putting the women in a semi-narcotic state. In reality, women thrashed, banged their heads, clawed, screamed, were bound, and laid in their own vomit and waste.
m1pBo TIL the first practical roadside breathalyzer was used in 1931 and it was called the Drunk-o-meter.
X0LVP TIL that vitamin D deficiency worsens respiratory tract infections. That's one of the reasons why in summer there are fewer cases of flu than in winter.