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TIL skyscrapers kill over 1 billion birds per year

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oR5OR TIL of the Circumhorizon Arc, aka fire rainbow. This horizontal "rainbow" of colour occurs when the sun or moon is over 50 degrees above the horizon and an arc of light passes thru a very specific kind of cloud (Cirrus clouds made up of ice crystals parallel to the ground), at just the right angle.
GADA4 TIL There are ~1.9 billion Muslims in the world, and only ~16 Million Jews.
x6bNg TIL there are remains of an ancient, extinct volcano in New Jersey.
EMrW TIL people still hunt polar bears with spears, and the courts will enforce their right to do so.
vBVK TIL branched alkane Tetraethylmethane is also called Nazinonane.