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TIL that Bruce Springsteen has a firefighter son

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gMY99 TIL that Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős worked on mathematics for up to 20 hours a day and at the end of his life had output a mathematical yield of roughly 1,500 papers, an order of magnitude higher than his most prolific and famous colleagues. Of these roughly 1,500 papers 507 were co-written.
kJkLW TIL Harris Hawks will stand on each others backs when there's limited perch space. It's called back stacking
yQkOM TIL that in a creative writing assignment titled "Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses", a student at a local High School predicted the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse on November 6, 1940. The bridge collapsed November 7, 1940.
KYYmE TIL that the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco, California, has the highest rodent density of any island in the world, with over a thousand mice per acre. Visitors to the islands can, at times, see the ground moving when the mice are burrowing their underground tunnels.
D1OXg TIL that indigenous people make up almost 5% of the population of Canada