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TIL that turkey vultures poop and pee on their own legs to cool down.

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m1L4v TIL The average depth of the ocean is 12080 feet, or over 2 miles deep.
XQVj TIL during the beginning of the 19th century, Ireland had almost half the population of Great Britain with ~5 million to it’s 10.5 million. Today at 6.3 million and 61 million it is little more than 1/10th.
Me8Q7 TIL when Lyndon B. Johnson was serving as president, he won Ronald Reagan's Dual-Ghia car in a poker game with him.
KOlb6 TIL of Fallen Astronaut - a small aluminum sculpture of an astronaut. The sculpture was authorized to be brought on board Apollo 15, but astronaut David Scott placed it on the moon as a memorial to American and Soviet casualties of their respective space programs.
N7NJ6 TIL that slowly losing one's native language while living in a non-English-speaking country is a real thing. It's called language attrition and there are people who study and research it.