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TIL that Segway Inc., the company that originally produced "the Segway", a two-wheeled vehicle once hailed as the future of personal transportation, permanently stopped producing the Segway in 2020.

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KOxB TIL that badgers will sometimes hunt cooperatively with coyotes
w6bY TIL the Billions Brazil Spent on World Cup Stadiums provided little to no long-term economic benefits
KOnKw TIL that Luke was written as Plo Kloon in The Mandalorian to hide the reveal
WkmWd TIL White-tailed Eagles kept flying into moving turbine blades at the Smøla wind farm in Norway. An experiment of painting a single blade black on each of two turbines compared to two unpainted turbines found that the bird deaths declined by 70%.
OoXre TIL of the Kola Superdeep Borehole. Standing at over 12km deep its' the deepest man made hole in the world