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TIL that birds in the Netherlands fly higher on New Year's Eve to avoid the fireworks

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QJZ6k TIL that a small population of Mammoths survived on the Wrangel Island, Russia until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza were completed.
VBwP4 TIL that the construction the Three Gorges Dam in China displaced enough water to lengthen the earth's day by 0.06 μs.
Q9OL TIL Quaker Oats had a video game divsion in the 80s. They made 14 games in a year, all failures, then shut down.
b9EwE TIL Diego is a hoodland tortoise who was a part of a breeding programme. He fathered 900 offsrping, and is responsible for bringing the population out of near extinction to a 2000 strong population today.
P4xe TIL that Starfish Prime was the largest man made nuclear explosion in outer space.