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TIL Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States were the only countries to vote against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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w977 TIL ticks are not insects but arachnids with 8 legs and are evolutionary related to mites.
rRZYM TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed and issued executive order 9066 on February 19, 1942 which allowed the forced relocation and incarceration of more than 112,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps
p84BQ TIL there are radiotrophic fungi, which perform radiosynthesis, or, in other words, use the pigment melanin to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy for growth
AGJg TIL that John Steinbeck once said of the Model T Ford: “Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than about the clitoris”
5kgk TIL: In NYC in 1987 the number of people bitten by squirrels: 95. The number of people bitten by other people in NYC that year: 1600.