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TIL that beavers build dams because they hate the sound of running water. A researcher set up speakers that played the audio of running water in multiple beaver populated areas, and the next morning found them to be covered in layers of sticks and mud.

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6E6xJ TIL that a plane like a Boeing 747 uses approximately 1 gallon of fuel (about 4 liters) every second.
ZWLa TIL that a parrot named “Alex” was the very first (and only) non-human animal to ask an existential question. He asked what color he was, and learned that he was gray.
WkRX9 TIL: Benjamin Franklin is credited with one of the first placebo-controlled studies to debunk animal magnetism (1784)
Mejrm TIL The Ukrainian famine—known as the Holodomor, a combination of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death”—by one estimate claimed the lives of 3.9 million people, about 13 percent of the population
6bwW TIL: That due to the reduced gravity on the moon humans could walk on water.