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TIL A new ancient city was recently discovered using Lidar technology.

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a8LA TIL that during the filming of The Shawshank Redemption, the American Humane Association monitored all of the scenes involving Brooks’ crow; during the scene when Brooks fed it a maggot, the AHA objected that it was cruel to use a live maggot and required that they use one that was already dead.
kx7m TIL that dolphins can sleep under water by closing one eye, resting ½ of their brain and using the other half to breathe and watch for danger
5VYeP TIL that hummingbirds are one of the few bird species that “pees”
QN4wL TIL that from 1925 to 1939, a group of corporations called the Phoebus cartel, including General Electric and Philips, coordinated competition among lightbulb manufacturers. To drive repeat sales, they fined companies which produced lightbulbs with an average lifespan exceeding 1,000 hours.
yV8bV TIL that there's an Indian restaurant chain called “Oh! Calcutta”. But it bears no relation to the 1969 controversial, totally-nude, avant-garde revue which ran for 5,959 performances, which made it the longest-running revue in Broadway history at the time.