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TIL that 75% of new BMW owners don’t have kids in their home

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p8NWG TIL why many birds have "whiskers" on their faces. The very long and highly sensitive so-called "rictal bristles" around the beaks of most birds are essential in helping maintain the birds' speed and orientation in the air as they fly speedily around small branches or going after prey in a field.
oLoE TIL: Pocahontas and Shakespeare were alive at the same time and died only a year apart.
XEJOP TIL of speed reader Kim Peek who could read a book in an hour by scanning the left page with his left eye then the right page with his right eye. He also had an exceptional memory, able to accurately recall the contents of 12,000 books.
R7dR9 TIL that the cocoa industry relies heavily upon child slavery, and that you can choose to buy chocolate from companies that pay their adult workers fair wages
neoBP TIL of the oldest bottle of wine, Known as Römerwein, or the Speyer wine bottle, it’s at least 1,650 years old. This dates back to the 4th century, sometime between 325 and 359 AD. The 1.5-liter glass vessel was discovered during the excavation of a Roman nobleman’s tomb in modern-day Germany.