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TIL Roadrunners can fly, they just prefer not to.

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xLM5 TIL an ordinary house in my neighborhood is actually a massive city pumping stations in disguise
Zrk4 TIL the rarest element on Earth is the halogen Astatine. It’s so rare that only 30 grams of it can be found at any point in time on Earth, and only 0.05 micrograms of it has been produced to date. Most of its properties are unknown and no one has ever seen it in its natural form.
woV96 TIL In the middle half of the nineteenth century, more than one-half of the population of Ireland emigrated to the United States
4koao TIL almost 75 percent of the refrigeration and air conditioning sector can be converted to natural refrigerants, such as ammonia
69eMW TIL that, on average, a dairy cow produces 100 pounds of milk per day, which equates to 12.5 gallons per day!