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TIL that if the Earth would begin falling towards the Sun, the whole journey would take about 65 days. It would take 41 days to cross the orbit of Venus, and on day 57, we'd cross the orbit of Mercury.

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lPm7 TIL that Peta kills about 2000 animals every year, about 90 percent of all the animals they take it. I also learned that about 60 percent of all animals taken in by all shelters nationwide are killed. The total number of euthanasia per year in America? About 4,000,000.
b9Kn4 TIL that a large alliance of Native American tribes, the Timucua, consisted of over 200,000 people spread across 35 chiefdoms. They were probably the first Natives Ponce de Leon met in Florida. The nation was wiped out before 1800 and all evidence of religious items and art were burned by explorers.
O1V1 TIL: 93% of the Great Barrier Reef is now damaged by coral bleaching
0dmpp TIL that chimpanzees also wage wars. The Gombe Chimpanzee War pitted two groups against each other for four years.
D1AXV TIL when Muppets creator Jim Henson died, Disney imagineers made a tribute drawing of Mickey consoling a sad Kermit.