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TIL Stone-stacking is popular amongst Instagrammers, but can seriously harm wildlife including oystercatcher birds.

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epAX6 TIL that US aircraft carriers John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and Kitty Hawk (CV-63), which cost the modern-day equivalent of US$2.5 billion each when built, were both sold to scrap merchants in 2021 for the price of a penny.
W7erL TIL Someone killed a pigeon by dyeing it pink for a gender-reveal party
N74v8 TIL Marketing to children, such as commercials and toys based off kids shows, was illegal in the United States until Ronald Reagan took office. He changed that law, which started the “Dark Ages of Animation.” This lasted until 1991, when Nickelodeon changed to focus on animators and storytelling
pwee TIL in the 1940s at Oxford, Professor JRR Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable.
Gr74 TIL the population of the United States quadrupled between 1820 and 1870