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TIL there are an estimated 50 Billion birds in the world
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R5o91
TIL the Solar System is much, much larger than I thought; Pluto is located at 39 Astronomical Units from the sun, while the Oort cloud, formed by billions or even trillions of asteroids, starts at around 2 to 5 thousand AUs from the sun and ends at around 10 to 100 thousand.
P118n
TIL: Gastroliths are rocks swallowed by some animals that remain in the digestion track to aid in digestion
OoWye
TIL that Stephen King published his novel Under the Dome in 2009, just a few years after an episode of The Simpsons with a similar dome-related plot was aired. King described himself as “gobsmacked,” as he hadn’t realized he had been beaten to the punch.
e0X1J
TIL that jigsaw puzzles almost never have the number of pieces they say on the box: most “1000-piece” puzzles are 38 x 27 = 1026
DL5P
TIL Pavlov’s dogs were eaten during the Siege of Leningrad by famished researchers