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TIL this giant rubber duck I saw in photos once exists in Canada and was paid entirely by taxpayers' money

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PMBJ TIL that after Steve Irwin’s death, his fans began cutting the tails off stingrays in revenge attacks
vM5B TIL, that to circumvent the “chicken tax”, a retaliatory import tax by the US on commercial vans, Ford imports its Turkish-made vans as passenger vans, with seats and back windows, only to immediately remove them once they arrive in the US
J1NA4 TIL that Antarctica is a desert
gMlbX TIL How often you hold your baby actually affects their DNA. The researchers looked at a process called DNA methylation. When they compared the methylation between the children the cells of the low-contact children were less mature than they should have been given the child’s actual age.
neePd Some concern is beneficial but obsessing is often futile.