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TIL Hummingbirds are continuously hours away from starving to death, and are able to store just enough energy to survive overnight.

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nld9 TIL 80,000 years ago, change from a vegetarian diet to eating meat may have enabled brain size to increase, which resulted in evolution to homo sapiens.
l7eXr TIL that a high school has its own train station. Only four trains a day stop at Caltrain's College Park station in San Jose, California, near Bellarmine Prep school. Caltrain would like to close the station, but students and parents say that it is very busy during the stops.
epwJD TIL Tim Sweeney, Epic Games CEO originally wrote 90% of the code for the first Unreal Game Engine and has since used his fortune to protect more than 50,000 acres of forests for conservation purposes
W7MO9 TIL John Hawkins was the first Englishman to profit off of the triangle trade of enslaved Africans to the Americas. Harkins' journeys also brought the sweet potato and tobacco to England.
9lW7 TIL that the longest filibuster was performed by Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina senator in opposition of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He talked for 24h and 18 min non-stop.