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TIL Google Rents Goats To Replace Lawnmowers At HQ

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0wW8N TIL that Date Stone Beetles females mate with their first son, proceed to eat him and his siblings of which all happen to be male, and then produce a second bigger batch of eggs, of which 90% are females.
jAwn TIL: Mexico City is sinking as much as 15 inches a year!
1aPVV TIL: The Beatles had an 'everyman' (Mal Evans, seen in Get Back) who did everything from roadie work to bodyguarding to even performing and just a few years after they broke up he was shot to death by the LAPD.
QNxjd TIL that Beethoven originally dedicated the Symphony No 3 to Napoleon Bonaparte. However Beethoven withdrew the dedication upon learning that Napoleon crowned himself Emperor.
OLng TIL Haiti and Liechtenstein unknowingly had the same flag until they first met at the 1936 Olympics, this led to the addition of a crown to the the flag of Liechtenstein in 1937.