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TIL Costa Rica has no army, it abolished it in 1949

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e06r6 TIL there is a bird that lacks a singing voice to attract mates -- instead it beats its wings faster than the speed of sound to create sonic booms that can be heard by all the females in the area
QJ5De TIL Albert Einstein married his first cousin for his second and final marriage and during that union he had numerous affairs with other women.
R5n9j TIL that +/- 42k years ago, the “Adam’s Event”, a reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles, may have led to the extinction of mega fauna, Neanderthals, and forced humans into caves as the earth experienced intense periods of cosmic radiation, solar winds, electrical storms, and drastic climate change.
wLZjE TIL strengths (9 letters) is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
9wOvD TIL that the first woman elected as a state senator in the US was a Mormon who practiced polygamy and won the election by defeating her own husband as her opponent.