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TIL that heavy water tastes sweet

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5O79 TIL that in 2004 the first wolverine sighting was made in Michigan in over 200 years.
Oo816 TIL that, because male chickens don't lay eggs, approximately 7 billion day-old male chicks are killed by the poultry industry annually; one of the recommended methods is live "maceration" (being thrown into a high speed grinder)
l7jX1 TIL there area an estimated half a million red wood trees in the UK (most are believed to be giant redwoods but also include coastal redwoods and dawn redwoods). And despite being native to California, they seem to be thriving.
Y4rx TIL that Scooby-Doo was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera’s plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning TV program that would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s.
ADW7d TIL that only 12 people have walked on the moon, and all within a 3 year span. No one has been to the moon since 1972, over 40 years ago.