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Today I learned no NBA player has ever been born in Vermont

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lkp5 TIL: Key deer is an endangered deer that lives only in the Florida Keys. Key deer easily swim between islands and because of their proximity have lost their fear to humans. It is the smallest North American deer.
9Dep TIL that the reason why 1 horsepower seems so small compared to the actual power of a horse is that it factors in the time that horses need to rest.
m56E TIL 60% of gun-related deaths in the U.S. are suicides (see 4th and 5th leading cause of death in far-right “Total” column) [PDF].
BrX0r TIL navigating by the stars is still used, the SR-71 (the fastest ever manned airplane) used a computer to automatically track the stars giving it <300m accuracy at Mach 3+. It could even track stars during the day.
m10pO TIL that, before it was known that birds migrated in the winter, it was a commonly accepted theory that birds dug holes and buried themselves in the ground during the cold months. In fact, Aristotle claimed he had found "swallows and kites [...] in holes in the ground".