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TIL There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America with roughly one foot of water

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nlpY TIL in England you can invoke the Ancient Lights law, which forbids your neighbor from constructing anything that deprives your property of illumination
EryV TIL Iceland’s first permanent settler was a slave called Nightwalker who escaped his master. Little else is known about him.
4XLAw TIL An adult male lion, if he’s lucky and durable, might attain the advanced age of 12 in the wild.
MeDOK TIL It will take only 30 japanese hornets to destroy whole bee hive containing 30 000 bees. Unlike the European bees, Japanese bees have a defense against the hornets. When a hornet scout approaches a hive the bees hide, let him enter and then emerge in a cloud formation to cook him alive.
8awMV TIL that a coyote pack's yipping affects the size of female coyotes' litters. If there aren't enough coyotes yipping in response when yipping occurs, females will produce larger litters to promote reproductive competition. This is why hunting coyotes isn't effective population control.