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TIL Adam Smith predicted the 13 colonies would defeat the British Empire & become a great empire itself

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NWGE TIL that when turkeys were reintroduced to New England, they chose to live in cities instead of the forests turkeys as living in tandem with humans dramatically improved their survival rate
lopeB TIL that Keiko, the orca who played Willy in "Free Willy", was actually "freed" in 2002. However, he died the following year. Most sources conclude that he had become too reliant on humans to be able to integrate with other killer whales, and could not therefore adapt to life in the wild.
epnlb TIL that the Goiâna disaster, largely considered to be the worst radiological disaster of all time, was caused in part by a security guard skipping work to take his family to see 'Herbie Goes Bananas'.
gM8w7 TIL about the "male idiot theory", where men are more likely to engage in risky behaviour without any apparent payoff.
pMG8 TIL- In 1935 Congress “declared war on soil erosion and enlisted kudzu as a primary weapon. More than 70 million kudzu seedlings were grown in nurseries by the newly created Soil Conservation Service.”