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TIL that 95.8% of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family only

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d8peQ TIL there are two golf balls lying on the moon. Alan Shepard shot them with his modified 6-iron on Apollo 14 mission in February 1971.
Zplbp TIL scientists created cyborg cockroaches. They put wires the cockroaches and steer them by remote control.
kJoKB TIL from the 1990s through 2021 the NFL used a method called "race-norming", which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function, as part of a dementia test to determine payouts in brain injury settlements.
knZd TIL that “Koko, a female gorilla trained in sign language, once tore a steel sink out of its moorings. When her handlers confronted her, Koko signed ‘cat did it’ and pointed at her innocent pet kitten.”
OGyZL TIL that about 100,000 people died each year in India due to the collapse of vulture populations. Vultures were crucial to the ecosystem & their near extinction due to accidental poisoning extended the presence of animal carcasses in the local environment, increasing rabies & reducing water quality.