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

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awYgb TIL That up until the 1970's it was common to own a slave in the Philippines
X8yD TIL after 1250 gallons of mayonnaise went bad at Michigan State University last year, the school’s Sustainability Officer used an anaerobic digester to turn it into energy and power part of the campus.
WkBxL TIL There is no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law which says otherwise.
4XbM6 TIL that from 1956 to 2008, the world record for the most-attended baseball game was held by Australia's Melbourne Cricket Ground, which hosted a crowd of 114000 for a game between the Australian National Team and a US Armed Services Team
Ool61 TIL U.S. President Herbert Hoover, as an undergraduate student, organized the first ever 'Big Game' football pairing between UC Berkeley and Stanford in 1892. It is now one of the oldest college rivalries in the United States.