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TIL Flying squirrels are actually native to most the United States, people just don’t see them because they’re nocturnal… and flying

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9YKbB TIL Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is a big Lord of the Rings fan, and under the pseudonym ‘Ingahild Grathmer’ helped to illustrate the danish version of the book
JBZm TIL The first bitcoin transaction ever made was 10,000BTC for a pizza, which is now worth approx $470,000USD
a97A TIL spiral staircases in medieval times wound in a clockwise direction (from the ascender’s point of view) to place attacking swordsmen (who were most often right-handed) at a disadvantage
7r5BO TIL researchers found that double decker bus drivers were twice as likely to have heart attacks as their bus conductor colleagues. The drivers sat for 90% of their shifts, the conductors climbed about 600 stairs a day
pmop TIL there is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button