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TIL that hummingbirds are only native to the Americas.
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TIL: the german general population under Hitler never actually got the Volkswagen beetle. There was a stamp lottery to get one that never finished before total war broke out. The first deliveries happened after the fall of the nazis.
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TIL that in the Victorian era, women wore crotchless panties and urinated in gravy boat-like vessels called “bourdalous”
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TIL that the North Pole is not a land mass, but rather a body of water that is almost permanently covered in a 2-3m thick ice sheet.
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TIL that bees can recognize individual human faces — something only a few non-human species can do.
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TIL a woman quit her job to search for her border collie who escaped from a hotel room during a thunderstorm while on vacation in Kalispell, Montana. After 57 days of searching and posting hundreds of flyers around town, she finally found ‘Katie’ who was starving, but otherwise OK.