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

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oBraL TIL about the huge environmental impact of cut bunches of flowers due to the fact that most are grown in South America using pesticides banned in the West, trucked to and from airports, and flown around the world representing an enormous carbon footprint.
BvoW TIL of the peanut butter tree. A tropical tree that smells like peanut butter and produces fruit that tastes like it as well.
Kw14 TIL that today is Isaac Newton’s birthday
awr7A TIL that great apes, including chimpanzees and orangutans, have absolutely no appreciation of music whatsoever. Research has shown they can’t tell the difference between Beethoven and Bieber, and that music is all just meaningless sound to them.
graO8 TIL that in 1929, American Paul Galvin did not invent the car radio, but instead realized and eventually capitalized on the viability of the emerging trend. Along with his brother Joseph and William Lear, he made the car radio as important to driving as the steering wheel.