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TIL flamingos pull one leg up close to their body to conserve heat that might otherwise be lost while standing in cold water. They tend to stand on two legs in warmer weather

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xVKYo Today I learned that the Scoville scale which is used to figure out the heat of any given pepper is determined by the number of dilutions of sugar water needed to eliminate the heat.
78anO TIL that the reason that there is a change in autumn train timetables is because squished wet leaves that fall on the track act as a lubricant and trains have to go slower for safety.
PYGRZ TIL Budapest, Hungary declares lomtalanítás or "get-rid-of-junk" days where residents pile mountains of trash in the streets. Scavengers, scrappers, and collectors sift through the piles before sanitation workers clean it all up.
nYAd TIL that the astronauts of Apollo 15 couldn’t get life insurance, so they took stamps to the moon to sell when they returned so their families would have a safety net in case the landing went wrong, they were later caught and forced out of the astronaut program.
pbBN TIL that United Airlines suffered from a 10% fall of stock prices after Dave Carroll released the musicvideo “United Breaks Guitars”