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TIL coconut crabs are suspected of hiding Amelia Earhart’s remains.

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xVDjD TIL In 2001, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) determined that English would, from then on, be the standardized language of air travel.
kXY5 TIL the difference between a sprocket and a gear: a gear meshes with other gears, while a sprocket meshes with a chain, belt or other kind of perforated material
QJVAk TIL about Australian Aborigine avoidance practices; these are social distancing rules that precludes in-laws from having direct contact and a policy of not naming the deceased which can last a period of between 12 months to several years.
wolm1 TIL it's estimated that there's 20 quintillion animals on Earth
W76OY TIL that the earliest refutation of UFOs was written in the 9th century by Agobard of Lyon, who wrote against the claims of peasants that ‘sky sailors’ were coming to steal their crops in his treatise ‘On Hail and Thunder’