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TIL Colorado’s two tallest mountains are so close to each other in height that fans of each mountain would repeatedly pile up rocks to try and make their preferred mountain taller.

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oRRy7 TIL ferrets are illegal to own in California.
XEwG8 TIL - Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.
WlMX TIL Australian funnel web spiders are accidentally toxic given the fact the venom appears to be fairly harmless to many other animals except primates and no primates are native to Australia.
aw8By It might surprise you that some of the world’s deadliest animals save millions of human lives—one day they might even save yours. In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Zoltan Takacs reveals how venomous creatures could be the future of pharmacology.
WkNN4 TIL in 1908, a meteor exploded over Siberia and flattened over 770 sq miles (2000 km) of forests. Though it disintegrated ~3 miles above Earth, it created an airburst with 1000x more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Incredibly, only 3 people were killed.