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TIL that there are trails in Ireland that have been certified as part of the International Appalachian Trail, because they were formed together during Pangea

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BraEd TIL LEGO refuses to make sets that are military themed despite the fact they are forfeiting profits. This is because the company has a policy not to portray war as child's play, they state that they want their play experiences to remain in the "realm of fantasy".
6EBxw TIL a filmmaker shot a soap opera web series called IKEA Heights entirely inside a Burbank, California IKEA without their permission. The creator of the show noticed that the well-lit sets and difficulty in getting the attention of employees made it an ideal location to film a show.
wYb6 TIL that M&M stands for Mars and Murrie’s
0wdAR Possibly. The trees-down (or “arboreal”) hypothesis has been around for many years, says evolutionary biologist Richard O. Prum of Yale University. Researchers guessed that the scales of tree-dwelling Triassic reptiles elongated into feathers, which helped them leap away from predators. Once the proto-birds could glide, they were en route to avian flight. “It was like one big, crazy hairball of ideas all stuck together,” Prum says.
GDb5 TIL Mormon families are encouraged by church leaders to be prepared for disasters, and that most Mormon families stockpile three months supplies of food and water and have community emergency plans in place wherever they are located.