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TIL it’s illegal to “pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb” a bald eagle in the US

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wka6 TIL that tropical rainforests have some of the most infertile soils found on the planet - all of the nutrients are locked in the vegetation.
Bkne TIL the Khmer Rouge’s “Killing Fields” genocide spilled over the border into Communist Vietnam, resulting in the massacre of over 3,000 Vietnamese. Vietnam responded by invading Cambodia and overthrowing the Khmer Rouge.
QJR6p TIL the NBA's Vlade Divac replaced both Kareem Abdjl-Jabbar (1989) and Shaquille O'Neal (2004) on the Los Angeles Lakers
MeQ0K TIL the Bootstrap Paradox is a time travel paradox in which an object or information can exist without ever being created. The object or piece of information is sent back in time where it is retrieved and to become the very object or piece of information that was brought back in the beginning.
0dAWR TIL roughly 1 in 22 Dodge Ram 2500 drivers have been cited with a DUI before, more than twice the national average of 1 in every 55 drivers overall.