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TIL Birds don't urinate. Instead, they convert nitrogen to uric acid.

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P1lBe TIL that the fastest object ever built by humans is NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Built to observe the outer corona of the Sun, the probe set the speed record by traveling at 587,000 km/h (364,660 mph), fast enough to fly from New York to Tokyo in just over a minute.
VMP58 TIL that the famous photo of Nikola Tesla calmly reading a book while his massive Tesla coil sends huge electric arcs across the room was a double exposure for a publicity campaign
kJvyW TIL The name "bonobo" resulted from a misspelling. These apes were found in the town of Bolobo, Zaire, in the '20s, but the name of the place was misspelled "Bonobo" on the shipping crate in which the animal was placed, leading others to refer to the animal by the name, which stuck.
m1YXp TIL that a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's government attempted to order an arrest of about 86,000 people
0oWA TIL that Coconuts are so important in the Cook Islands they ask about them in the census. For the record, each home eats ten coconuts per week… and feeds 75 to their animals.