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TIL that the construction the Three Gorges Dam in China displaced enough water to lengthen the earth's day by 0.06 μs.

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ZRBQ TIL that dolphins are not uniquely intelligent; chickens perform similarly on the same intelligence tests used to push for legislation to designate dolphins “non-human persons”, & the evidence that dolphins are capable of complex emotions, such as empathy, have been inconclusive.
1PQP TIL that smaller creatures experience time much faster than we do, so to them we seem to be moving in slow motion.
XexD TIL after reading newspaper accounts of a family dying after their refrigerator leaked toxic gas into their home, Albert Einstein and a student invented a refrigeration system with no moving parts. Now known as the Einstein Refrigerator, modern refinements may see it soon hit the market.
KkbG TIL a man was convicted and hanged in 1673 using the testimony of ghosts that appeared in dreams to witnesses.
vPy9L TIL of the Church of One Tree, a church in Santa Rosa, California built with lumber from a single redwood tree The tree used to construct the Church stood 275 feet high and was 18 feet in diameter. It produced 78,000 board feet of lumber.