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TIL that termites fart a LOT. Their flatulance accounts for somewhere between 5 and 19 percent of global methane emissions per year.

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a8G7Z TIL that museums do not list the value of their collections on their financial statements.
0d1my TIL, scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton
DQg8p TIL that there is an Indian metal ban called Bloodywood, and that when they went on tour they called it "Raj Against the Machine"
OoMOa TIL that during WWI, London was protected by massive lengths of steel cables suspended from observation balloons to guard against air raids. These "balloon aprons" forced pilots to fly above their range or too low to avoid AA fire.
kOyMg TIL of the “smoosh method”, a way of introducing two chinchillas to each other by placing them both in a small cage they can’t move in so they don’t attack each other