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TIL in the 1940s in Idaho they parachuted beavers into remote areas to help restore wetlands

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rRaV1 TIL The ancient Egyptian “Festival of Drunkenness” was a yearly commemoration of humanity’s saving from the goddess Hathor after she got drunk and fell asleep. They would spend a day drinking and having sex, then be woken up the next day by loud drum-playing.
bYKa TIL the First Family pays for most of its living expenses in the White House, including groceries, toiletries and some staff.
Wvm8 TIL companies such as Google, Lego and Xerox regularly work to avoid the risk of their trademarked names becoming genericized, because if those terms become fully generalized terms for ‘internet search’, 'interconnecting plastic block’ or 'photocopy’, then they could lose those trademarks.
JW98 TIL The day after Robin Williams’s suicide, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline fielded the greatest number of calls in its history.
X0ovj TIL-What is better for the environment between EVs and hydrogen fuel cells?