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TIL that the number of calories consumed by a beef cow in its lifetime is enough energy to launch itself out of a cannon at > escape velocity

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mxOGo TIL Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most politically active women of the 20th Century. She campaigned civil rights in the early 1930’s, regularly spoke on behalf of her husband and pressed the US to join the United Nations. She eventually remodeled the meaning of ‘First Lady’.
kOEBg TIL Certain Ant Species Have Evolved Huge, Shield-like Heads, Which They Use to Plug the Entrances to Their Nests From Predators
QJaop TIL: Clickhole was brought by Cards Against Humanity in 2020-feb-03
djLB TIL of Kowloon Walled City – a bygone, ungoverned Chinese city with a population density of over 3 million people per square mile
Al1d TIL that over 90% of fetuses diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome in the UK are terminated.