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TIL there are more moose living in the Canadian territory of Yukon than there are people

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BgOBy TIL the Apollo program is the largest ever research & development project to be executed during peacetime. It cost $25.4 billion (roughly $257 billion adjusted for inflation). At its peak, it accounted for over half of NASA'a total spending in the 1960s and employed over 400K people across the US.
gMgYL [TIL] The reason why in porn scenes "step bro", "step sis", and "step mom" is said too much frequently is because some payment processors will force the producer companies to do so.
9YnXX TIL that Lebanon was known as the land of Phoenicians and their national bird is the mythical Phoenix.
ADwMo TIL that tumbleweeds aren’t just dead plants rolling around aimlessly. They also have a strategy; to disperse their seeds, shaking loose thousands of them as they roll.
e0BM6 TIL Tippi Hedren was traumatized while filming Hitchcock’s The Birds. He told her mechanical birds were to be used during the famous bedroom scene. Instead she endured 5 days of prop men flinging dozens of live gulls, ravens and crows at her. One of the birds gouged her cheek and just missed her eye