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TIL about the Sorbian people of Lusatia in eastern Germany. They speak a Slavic language, keep bilingual signs, and still celebrate traditions like Easter horseback parades and intricate egg painting. Though small in number, they’ve preserved their culture for over 1,000 years.

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94EQ TIL that Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana produces compressed natural gas from its cows’ waste and uses it to fuel their fleet of delivery trucks and farm equipment. This practice saves 1.5 million gallons of diesel and reduced CO2 emissions by 1.4 million metric tons.
OGE4L TIL: House cats are extremely effective hunters; domestic and feral cats kill billions of birds every year in the US alone. Putting a loud/extremely visible collar on cats can help warn birds from cat attacks.
Z84JR TIL of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
e0y66 TIL that the music artist Prince had enough unreleased music written in his vault that he could make an album every year for the next century.
Wkdp4 TIL that the British government built a 1,100 mile long Great Hedge of India to enforce a salt tax in Northern India but failed horribly since people started throwing salt over the hedge