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TIL that hummingbirds are only native to the Americas.

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gZL8 TIL: in 1955, someone dropped a >600 year old plaster buddha statue… to discover the plaster was actually covering a solid gold statue.
VMnL0 TIL It was illegal to get a tattoo in New York City between 1961 and 1997, which forced tattoo artists to operate on an underground basis.
6E8PZ TIL in the summer of 2011, authorities were finally able to create a DNA profile of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and upload it to the FBI’s national database when vials of his blood, taken in 1978, were discovered previously untouched and forgotten in a Florida crime lab
OoaD4 TIL the worlds largest farm, Mudanjiang City Dairy Farm is located in China and covers an area of 22.5 million acres. This is the same size as Portugal.
7rX0p TIL that the Great Wall of China, stretching over 20,000 km (13,000 miles) and built over centuries, never effectively prevented invaders from entering China.