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TIL that hummingbirds are only native to the Americas.

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vPObr 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.
l76GV TIL that in the Victorian era, women wore crotchless panties and urinated in gravy boat-like vessels called “bourdalous”
0wXEN 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.
grYN8 TIL that bees can recognize individual human faces — something only a few non-human species can do.
mxyGR 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.