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TIL that lawns cover over 40 million acres in the U.S., more than any single food crop. If just 10% were restored to native plants, it would create a pollinator corridor nearly twice the size of Yellowstone National Park.

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OoxZX TIL the German city of Frankfurt Am Main supplies heroin addicts with clean needles and tolerates the consumption of drugs in "shooting galeries" around the central station to control the city's drug scene. This approach is called the "Frankfurt way".
VRjm TIL that the entire game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is less than 1MB in size.
kJQ9g TIL about “Dolbear’s Law” - a way to (roughly) estimate temperature by counting the number of cricket chirps in a 15 second timeframe, then adding 40!
gMmn8 TIL that Korean Air accidentally strayed into Soviet Airspace, leading to the plane being shot down. To prevent such a tragedy, US President Ronald Reagan declassified a critical military tech and that is how we got GPS for civilian use.
d8DxZ TIL using Fluid Dynamics to study the question, "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?" won Marc-Antoine Fardin the Ig Nobel Physics Prize on September 14, 2017.