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TIL That only 50% of Americans can read at an 8th grade level

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Db7e TIL the scientist, Clair Patterson, who helped develop the atomic bomb, also saved humanity by stopping the use of Leaded Gasoline.
p8aMb TIL that the Greenland shark is deemed biologically immortal. With the estimated life span of up to a 500 years, reaching sexual maturity at around 150 years of age, the Greenland shark is the longest living vertebrate on the planet. Not a single specimen has been observed dying from old age.
N7rZM TIL that in Germany, it is illegal to kill any animal that is a vertebrate "without proper reason" like the animal being ill or a danger to humans. Because of this, all German animal shelters are no-kill.
nWv5b TIL ponderosa pine trees bark smells like butterscotch.
0wVBN TIL: even though humans have been getting taller for the past several thousand years, we're still not as tall as we used to be pre-civilization