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TIL Alberta, Canada has the highest HDI Score of any region in North America. It is also only beaten globally by the countries of Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. (HDI measures things like Literacy, Education, Life Expectancy and Income)

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16K4 TIL In a motor accident, where a speeding car hits a slower moving vehicle coming from the side, the speeding car drivers often swear that they just didn’t see the vehicle coming from the left or right. Well, they aren’t lying.This phenomenon is known as “Motion Induced Blindness”.
XE7yR TIL there's a very large, clumsy, and flightless species of ground-dwelling Parrot in New Zealand called the Kakapo. Critically endangered, these turkey-sized, incredibly friendly and hopeless birds are mostly uninterested in mating, have no practical defenses, and often forget that they cannot fly.
8eLaa TIL about turducken, a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey
ebW4 TIL that in 1567,Hans Steininger, the man said to have the longest beard in the world, died after he tripped over his beard and broke his neck running away from a fire. He usually bundled up his beard in a leather pouch, but that day he hadn’t.
NXpkP TIL An estimated 10 to 15 percent of abducted Africans died on their way to the coast from the interior during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Historians also estimate that between 15 and 25 percent of the enslaved Africans bound for the Americas died aboard slave ships.