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TIL That male ducks doesn't quack.

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abWy TIL Bald Eagles go through a crazy color transformation: the first five years they gradually change; the beak turns from black to yellow, the eyes from brown to pale yellow, body feathers from mottled to dark brown, and head and tail feathers from mottled to solid white.
6EYVZ TIL that American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was related to 12 other U.S. presidents. This total constitutes over 25% of U.S. presidents. He was also related to Winston Churchill, Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Confederate General Robert E Lee.
7r4gP TIL that Lake Malawi (in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique), the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world, is called the "Calendar Lake", because it is 365 miles from top to bottom, 52 miles at its widest point, and 12 main rivers flow into the lake
edOE TIL the phrase “all natural” is completely unregulated and can be used to describe any product. “The lack of standards in most jurisdictions means that the term assures nothing.”
8eaLP TIL that the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, UK) conducted an online naming poll for a polar research vessel. The name "Boaty McBoatface " was the runaway winner of the poll with 124,109 votes.