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TIL a medium-sized dog has the same environmental cost as a SUV

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BgZJe TIL that the first surviving full-length animated film played in cinemas was produced in the German Reich in 1926 and was directed by a woman - Lotte Reiniger
D1Pwg TIL Scientists found out that the human eye is so sensitive that our eyes can even see a single photon of light.
BrVNL TIL that Ireland has 3 Peat fired power plants. Using peat taken from Irish bogs, its more polluting than Coal and is so inefficient it is subsided by the state.
G0l4 TIL the reason why the five-star general rank is called “General of the Army” instead of the traditional “Field Marshal” is because the Chief of Staff General George Marshall would be called “Marshal Marshall”
bpbj TIL the Pyramids of Giza were not built by slaves, but by paid workers from poor Egyptian families in the North and South.