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TIL that hummingbirds are one of the few bird species that “pees”

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NY58 TIL that in 1893 geologist and explorer Major John Wesley Powell told the Los Angeles International Irrigation Congress, “Gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights, for there is not sufficient water to supply the land.” He was booed out of the hall.
j6odn TIL An archaic name for the rhesus macaque, in use in the 19th century, is "bruh"
9Yy87 TIL comedian Stewart Lee frequently stole material from his partner Richard Herring.
ZGBQ TIL 10% of China’s cooking oil comes from the gutter by recycling sewage. This oil is illegal and dangerous but extremely lucrative for the sellers who can make as much as a well-paid white-collar worker.
68LY TIL that one of the main reasons WWF founder Sir Peter Scott choose a panda as the organisations logo was to minimise printing costs (needing just black and white).