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TIL: the macadamia nut is the only indigenous Australian plant grown as a large scale commercial food crop

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Kbm6 TIL there are females modeling only for menswear.
gAQW TIL penguins were found in the arctic, but only from 1936-1949. They were introduced to replace the great auk, which had been hunted to extinction. The penguins survived the conditions well, but were also hunted to extinction. One was beaten to death by a local woman, whom mistook it for a demon.
MNB0 TIL that if parents cleaned a dropped pacifier by sucking on it themselves before giving it back to their baby the child “had nearly 60 percent less eczema and 90 percent less asthma by 18 months compared to parents who used tap or boiling water.”
oO98 TIL since the 1990s, Carmel, Indiana has been replacing all signaled intersections with roundabouts. Benefits include gas savings of 24k gallons/year per roundabout; construction costs $125,000 less per intersection; injury accidents dropped by 80 percent and total accidents dropped by 40 percent.
nvb9 TIL That there is a suspended monorail in Germany that was build in 1897 and still moves 25 million passengers annually.