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

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kJ8Pe TIL Edamame is immature soybean
xQoB TIL it is common for spiders to eat their own web daily to reuse the silk proteins.
oBK7W TIL that Blackpanthers planned a free breakfast program for children but the Chicago cops broke into the church they were holding it in the night before and Urinated on all the food. Regardless of the delay the program continued and fed tens of thousands of hungry kids over the span of many years.
x6klB TIL that USPS ships day old baby chicks in the mail
eplEk TIL in 2006 a Texas woman's house was demolished by accident because Google Maps provided the wrong location to the demolition crew. Google Maps resolved two houses' addresses to the same location, and the demolition crew didn't verify the street name was correct.