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TIL food banks largely prefer cash donations over canned food drives: for every $1 donated, most food banks can order $4-5 worth of food

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Y7nex TIL scientists going on rotation to the South Pole watch The Thing(1982) on their first night at base
8bN4 TIL: Palindrome is not a palindrome, but it is a semordnilap, which is a word that means something different backwards. Semordnilap backwards is palindromes.
Zxev TIL that either everybody on reddit is using the website crazyfacts.com to come up with things they learned today or the people from crazyfacts.com are using Reddit for their crazy facts. Check it out and see for yourself.
4XGaX TIL It is estimated that 16 gorillas were killed during the Rwandan war, but the overall population increased from 320 to 355. Gorillas survived because they moved father up the mountains, away from violent humans and no faction wanted the bad publicity of being responsible for a gorilla death
nWvBb TIL The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh alone has a population of around 235 million, one bigger than Nigeria or Brazil.