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TIL Michigan State University will identify any insect, arthropod, plant, or weed for free if you send a picture of the specimen via email.

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N77WJ TIL in 2014 a man in South Africa was transporting 2 giraffes in an open trailer. While going under an overpass, one of the giraffes hit its head on the overpass and died, due to head trauma. Thankfully, the other survived.
BZWb TIL the Disney exec responsible for John Carter stepped down from his job after the movie studio took a 200 million dollar loss
wLp86 TIL that Hamburg has the biggest rural cemetery in the world and that it is nearly twice the size of Monaco at 400 hectares.
Wk804 TIL Scientists tracking the migration of swifts discovered they can stay airborne for 10 months straight without ever landing. Of those birds that did land, they still spent 99.5% of their ten months in the air.
VMjEk TIL Philippines thru the Debt for Nature Swap got a $18.6 M debt relief from World Wildlife Fund & USAID in exchange for doing 4 Separate Environmental Projects ( 1988-93) in El Nido National Park, Mt. Isarog National Park, Tubathaha Reef National Park & other heritage sites