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TIL the number of craft breweries in the US increased from less than 2,000 in 2010 to almost 9,000 in 2020.

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woXAE TIL that a rat's jaws are built like an alligator's, and they can exert up to 7,000 pounds of force per square inch, meaning they can quickly bite down to the human bone.
J1Jmv TIL that charcoal beetles fly into forest fires to mate and lay eggs because competition and predators will be low. They sense distant fires using infrared armpit sensors.
Z86aB TIL 2,500 left-handed people die each year using equipment made for right-handed people.
E1GK7 TIL tree kangaroos are marsupials inhabiting the lowland and mountainous rainforests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the far north of Queensland, Australia. Living up in the foliage, these species look like a cross between a kangaroo and a lemur. There are 14 known species of tree kangaroo.