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TIL the average duration of power outages doubled from 2015 to 2021, in the U.S.. On average, people experienced 7 hours of power interruptions in 2021

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6N1w TIL Amazon river dolphins have been observed to insert their penises into others’ blowholes, which makes this the only known example of “nasal sex”.
X6P6 TIL there are myths of an advanced civilization of red haired people who disappeared after the last ice age (5,000+ years ago)
OVK7 TIL there are over 300 Drive-In movie theaters still operating in the United States
9yGp TIL that Jacqueline Kennedy requested an eternal flame for her husband’s grave and that group of Catholic schoolchildren were sprinkling the temporary flame with holy water. The cap came off the bottle and water poured onto the flame, putting it out.
OmKL TIL After A SendGrid employee publicly humiliated a software developer for joking with another developer at a conference, and got him fired, SendGrid itself was attacked by a DDOS and ended up firing her