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TIL: the first documented case of a moose eating their own feces (coprophagy) was documented in May 2018

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G865 TIL of the International Dark Sky Association, an organization dedicated to fighting light pollution and preserving the night sky in areas around the planet called dark sky reserves.
m1GLy TIL that before the invention of electric light, most Europeans had two phases of sleep, awakening late at night before sleeping again, called biphasic sleep
xVePo TIL the Dutch traded the island of Manhattan to the British for Run Island, near Indonesia, for its supply of nutmeg.
1aan7 TIL that town planning was once an Olympic event, as were several other architectural disciplines. The Olympics were to be about the arts as much as sport and contestants could compete in literature, music and several other non-sporting pursuits
6PLm TIL that Ferrucio Lamborghini originally was a tractor maker. When Ferrari refused to replace a broken clutch in one of the Ferraris that he owned because he was “Just a tractor maker, and didn’t know anything about cars” he decided to start his own company. Thus the Lamborghini sports car was born.