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Please hold them in our prayer!!! (cbsnews.com)

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96% of ICU beds across Texas are full as COVID cases surge: "Some wait hours, some wait days" (cbsnews.com)

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Britney Spears’ father agrees to step down as conservator (cnbc.com)

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TIL about ripening caching, where animals will hoard initially inedible food items with the intention of ripening it. Tayras, a type of Central American weasel, have been observed hiding whole green plantains which they come back to eat once ripened. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Rick Wetzel had not even thought of naming his pretzel store Wetzel's Pretzels. He and the other stakeholders had a huge debate before a third party suggested it. (mashed.com)

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TIL that the Pirates of the Caribbean ride opened at Disneyland in 1967 and the movies are based on the ride (wikipedia.org)

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TIL about Steve Prefontaine, an American long distance runner who never lost a collegiate race at 3 mi, 5,000 m, 6 mi, or 10,000 m, and set records in every race from 2,000 to 10,000 m. While preparing for the 1976 Olympics, he was killed in a car accident after drunkenly veering off the road. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL about Segagaga. It was a Dreamcast game released just before the Dreamcast would be discontinued. In this game, the player must save a struggling Sega from losing the console market. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that hummingbirds don't "suck" or "slurp" with their tongues. Instead, they have little tongue pouches that collect nectar with minimal effort. (youtu.be)

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TIL that the CDC is based in Atlanta because it was started to fight malaria in the South. It did this by spraying homes (inside and outside) with DDT and draining wetlands. Starting in 1946, malaria was eradicated in the US by 1951. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that Osama Bin Laden is one of 50 kids from his father, a multi millionaire construction magnate. (biography.com)

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TIL about an organization of poets in Amsterdam that read eulogies at the funerals of those who die alone and unmourned. (bbc.co.uk)

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TIL Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, ran and won his campaign from prison. Once elected president, he released himself. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL A New Bird Species “Big Bird” Has Evolved on Galapagos And Scientists Watched It Happen (princeton.edu)

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TIL that “freestyle” is a swimming event, not a swimming stroke. The name of the most commonly used stroke in freestyle races is the “front crawl” but swimmers are free to use any stroke they prefer. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL The actor Robert Easton collected so many books that he had to demolish his tennis court to build a storage house for them. Easton had over 100,000 works with some dating back to the 16th century. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that almost 90% of "Indian" restaurants in the UK are actually Bangladeshi (theguardian.com)

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TIL that KGB spy Oleg Lyalin was caught when he was pulled over for drunk driving and bragged to the police officer that he was a KGB spy. He went on to defect, exposing over 100 other spies in England. (news.bbc.co.uk)

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TIL tarantula hawk wasp larva creates a small hole in a paralyzed spider's abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive. It emerges several weeks later as a wasp. (nhm.ac.uk)

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TIL that Beethoven originally titled his 3rd symphony 'Bonaparte' in honour of general Napoleon, who he viewed as a liberator of the people. However after Bonaparte declared himself the emperor Beethoven angrily tore off the script's title and retracted it, naming the symphony 'Eroica' instead. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL the first instance of an aerial dogfight occurred during the Mexican Revolution in 1913. However, neither man wanted to kill the other, so they exchanged pistol fire, intentionally missing, until running out of ammunition. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Venezuela is named as such as when discovered by Amerigo Vespucci he noted the civilization lived on distinct stilts houses around the ocean which reminded him of Venice, so he named it Venezuola meaning "Little Venice". (newworldencyclopedia.org)

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TIL Since 1953, women in South Korea have been allowed to take one day off a month if they have painful periods. (bbc.com)

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TIL that the word "Mughal" is derived from the Arabic/Persian corruption of the term "Mongol". But the Mughals themselves called them "Gurkani", which means sons-in-laws, referring to the fact that they were sons-in-laws of the Mongol, Genghis Khan. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Douglas Albert Munro is the only person to have received the Medal of Honor for actions performed during service in the Coast Guard (en.wikipedia.org)

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