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TIL Cats can hold grudges for around 16 hours

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Bb8L TIL that, for half the cost of a new nuclear power plant, we could retrofit 1,600,000 homes for energy efficiency and save the same amount of energy as the new power plant would make.
8e86Z TIL Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, is not connect to the sewer system, instead relying on a fleet of poop trucks
b9k6E TIL that Peter Gabriel is spearheading an ‘Interspecies Internet’ with 3 other scientists - an internet where humans and other intelligent animals can communicate with each other.
0w6lA TIL, despite posing as a neutral country, Switzerland helped US and German intelligence services in gathering classified communications by selling rigged encoding devices to more than 120 governments.
K4na TIL that every part of a dandelion is edible. The leaves and buds can be eaten as greens, the flowers can be made into wine, and the roots can be roasted and ground to make “coffee.”