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TIL that most male birds have no penis. Most species reproduce by “kissing” buttholes for a few seconds.

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5pKp TIL sea level rise is attributed to ice melting on land, not ice melting on the sea. Like a glass of water with ice; the volume doesn’t change when it melts, so we need to beware of Greenland and Antarctica’s ice melting.
E1onp TIL that Phil Hartman (Simpsons, Jingle all the Way) was, before his untimely-death, developing a live action movie for his beloved Simpsons character Troy McCLure. You might remember him from such educational videos as "Lead Paint: Delicious but Deadly" and "Here Comes the Metric System!"
5YjLk TIL that precious metals like gold can be artificially created in particle accelerators. Basically lighter atoms are bombarded with neutrons and electrons making them turn into heavier atoms which then decay into the desired metal. Unfortunately, the process is extremely expensive.
woVK8 TIL that during the carnian age (232 million years ago) it rained for 1-2 million years straight almost everywhere according to scientists
69DMJ TIL that in 1866 a flock of the now extinct Passenger Pigeon in southern Ontario was described as being 1.5 km (0.93 mi) wide and 500 km (310 mi) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds.