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TIL that in Sydney Australia snipers are deployed to protect colonies of little penguins from predators

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9wyym TIL that in the United States, 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level, 20% are below 5th-grade level, and 21% are illiterate.
xkD0 TIL That when Kazakhstan’s shooting team won a medal at a competition in Kuwait during the medal ceremony they played the Borat version of the national anthem
5VOJB TIL twice every day at the same time almost 900 weather balloons are released across the world that collect the data used for forecasting the weather.
a8DQo TIL: Fort Ross is a former Russian establishment and the southernmost Russian settlement in North America.
BrNxb TIL that the world’s roundest object, a silicon-28 atom sphere, was created to perfectly define the weight of a kilogram. These spheres are so precisely round that if they were the size of the Earth, there would only be a 3-5 meter difference between Mount Everest and the Mariana Trench.