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TIL that 3.5% of all vehicle collisions in one Canadian province involve collisions with moose. Mooses. Meese. Whatever.

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5Ve9P TIL that there are no words in the English language that rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple
0drp TIL in the 1970s there was a Utopian village in Nigeria where there were no cemeteries because the villagers thought they were immortal.
9wQV7 TIL the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 refers to a supposed newspaper article that said because of horses, in "50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure." It's an analogy for how new technologies (in this case cars) can take care of problems that seemed unsolvable.
md1O TIL it is a common misconception that for every one second there is between the flash and the thunder of a Lightning equals to the lightning being one kilometer away. In fact it is about 3 seconds for each kilometer.
gmX7 TIL that the entire LOTR trilogy, all Star Wars movies and all but one of the Harry Potter films fail the Bechdel Test, which tests for three requirements: 1. Two named female characters. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something other than a man.