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TIL white squirrels make up a third of the population of wild squirrels in Brevard, NC.

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wLwZP TIL NASA is proposing to cool the Yellowstone super volcano by drilling down 10km into the super volcano and pumping in water at a high pressure. They then plan to use the extracted heat as a resource for power.
gYA7 TIL that NASA wouldn’t launch the space shuttle if the mission ran from December to January because the on board computers were not designed to handle the end if year rollover.
DQ1XP TIL that Britain proposed a Franco-British Union in 1940 to prevent the French from surrendering to Germany. Philippe Pétain referred to the union as "fusion with a corpse".
ADrVa TIL that Newman's Own gives 100% of their profits to charity, so you can feed yourself and give to a good cause at the same time - just a small way to make a difference
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