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TIL There are no hummingbirds in Hawaii and never will be thanks to pineapples

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v1kZ4 TIL In 1974, Toeless NFL Kicker Tom Dempsey Set A 43-Year Field Goal Record With 2 Seconds Left In The Game, Leading The Saints To A 19-17 Walk-Off Win
VMQ9D TIL Archaeologists found 2,800 year old ceramic sippy cups with cute animal motifs, containing traces of livestock milk, which suggests infants back then were drinking it. The dates correspond to a baby boom at that time, suggesting that sippy cups were an important innovation for humanity.
Z8XNv TIL that the earth will become inhospitable to life in 2 - 3 billion years as the sun increases in temperature, pushing the habitable Goldilocks zone to Mars or beyond.
7rkBL TIL Robert E. Lee opposed building public memorials to the Confederacy. Shortly after his death, admirers made him the centerpiece of the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" movement.
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