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TIL that sandhill cranes have one of the longest fossil histories of any extant bird. The oldest confirmed sandhill crane fossil is 2.5 million years old, while most living species of birds date back to less than 1.8 million years.

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YplXG TIL It's estimated one in a billion bones gets fossilized. By that calculation the entire fossil legacy of the 320-odd million people alive in the US today will equate to approximately 60 bones – or a little over a quarter of a human skeleton.
LQYed TIL that Singapore banned chewing gum 1992 to 2004. The ban was so strict that travelers had to declare any gum at immigration, and violators faced fines up to S$10,000 or jail time.
KVJ4 TIL that in 1948, the citizens of Nanking, including the mayor himself, raised a very large sum of money for John Rabe after learning that he was in poverty in occupied Germany, because of his efforts to stop the atrocities during the Nanking Massacre in 1937 within the Safety Zone.
9wwOm TIL that pretty much evry other country bases the beginning of Summer and Winter on the solstices. I’m Aussie and here summer always begins on December first; Winter always begins on June first. I used other sources to verify this as well; this one is just the best site where the point is most clear
8Z4b TIL that in 1925 KKK membership peaked at somewhere between 3 and 6 million, meaning that at least 2.6% of the population of the united states was a member