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TIL that 89% of people who own a programmable thermostat don't actually program it.

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9wwgB TIL about the Genetic Isopoint - anyone alive at the genetic isopoint (or before) is either the ancestor of everyone alive today or no one alive today. And you can assume today will be a genetic isopoint for sometime in the distant future.
0ba1 TIL: there is a pub in Ireland that has been in operation for over 1000 years.
6Qew TIL that there is a legal and illegal way to build with Legos
XYkD TIL Considered some of the world’s smartest birds, crows operate with brains about 1/1000th the size of an adult human’s. They memorize and coordinate events over distances, they develop tools, and they teach their young lessons to pass down to future generations.
wLN67 TIL that Dalmatians we’re used as guard dogs for horses who would become scare at the scene of a fire. Since they stopped using horses it became the mascot of fire stations.