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TIL Zoos will take donated Christmas Trees and use them to feed their animals.

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Nkwe TIL Morality predates religions and is exhibited by higher animals.
Dy9p TIL that after the HMS Sheffield was hit by and Argentine Exocet missile during the Falklands War, her crew sang “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Monty Python’s Life of Brian as they awaited rescue and watched their ship burn uncontrollably.
Z80xQ TIL About White House Journalist Lester Kinsolving, Who Repeatedly Raised the Issue of The AIDs Epidemic During Reagan Administration Press Conferences, Only to be Ridiculed with Homosexual Slurs by Press Secretary Larry Speakes.
ANDaw TIL that the predecessor to the modern SD card was a storage format called MultiMediaCard, or MMC. Many SD card readers can read some MMC cards without issue. A very popular variant is eMMC, which is an embedded low-cost solid-state storage option for mobile phones and laptops.
a6pL TIL that Charles Darwin’s wife, Emma, often referred to him as “My Nigger” as seen in this handwritten letter.