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TIL At a specific spot at the Teotihuacan Pyramids clapping creates bird sounds.

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m1PZO TIL Asian carps can consume up to 40% of their body weight in food each day, grow more than 25 cm during their first year, and reach a weight of 40 kg. This is up to 16 kg of food a day (35 lbs)
5yXp TIL the FDA relies on studies performed by the companies seeking approval of chemicals they manufacture or want to use. No other developed country has a system where companies decide the safety of chemicals put into food. Many food additives allowed in the U.S. are banned in other countries
x5lD TIL in sign language your name is an individual hand movement designed by yourself
KYMW4 TIL that when Mount Everest was first measured it was found to be exactly 29,000 feet tall. It was reported as 29,002 because surveyors worried the public would assume 29,000 was merely an estimate.
x6lxB TIL General Motors created an electric car in the 90s to comply with California clean air regulations, after it proved far more popular than expected they shut down the program and against the protests of their customers reclaimed all the existing EVs and crushed them and buried them in the desert.