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TIL Ostriches are the only living birds that pee and poo separately.

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Znvp TIL when congress asked physicist R.R. Wilson to justify the US government spending millions of dollars on a new particle accelerator (Fermilab), Wilson testified that the knowledge gained from it would have “nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.”
1D57 TIL Human Zoos existed. “These were popular human exhibits where whites went to watch Black people who were on display. The Black people were usually forced to live behind gates and in cages similar to animals in a zoo today.”
P1OG TIL that the taste zones on your tongue (sweet in front, sour on the sides, …) are a MYTH
J4Rm TIL The glass harmonica is considered by some to be the world’s most dangerous instrument - Credited with unexplained deaths as well as causing Tinnitus and mental breakdowns
Bwbd TIL A remote African Tribe donated cattle to the US after learning about 9/11