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TIL Scientists are digging up Adélie penguin guano(poop) to study millennia of Antarctica’s history.

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N7W68 TIL that even though Canada did not participate in the Vietnam war, some Canadians volunteered to fight alongside the US. 134 of them lost their lives in the war.
WkbkN TIL: The book titled 20 Slices doesn't use paper for its pages. It's made of cheese. It has become trendy among college librarians to acquire it for their academic collections. Some copies get stored not on regular bookshelves but instead in the staff fridge.
d8joB TIL that mongoose were imported to Hawaii to control the rat population, not realizing that the two animals were on opposite sleep schedules (nocturnal/diurnal) and thus innefective.
D1QYD TIL that the country with the highest female to male ratio of Primary School enrollment is Iran with a ratio of 1.223
k6RB TIL the highest achievement in the community of airbrush artistry is the “Vargas Award.”