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TIL the smallest hoofed animals are called Java mouse-deer, not much bigger than ordinary rats

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mADR TIL that rumble strips cause an increase in roadkill. During winter, the salt that gets put on the road accumulates in the spaces of the rumble strips. Moose, elk, and deer view this as a convenient salt lick, and get hit by oncoming traffic.
epg65 TIL in March 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown shipped himself to freedom in a 3-foot by 2-foot crate from his master’s home in Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, earning himself the nickname “Box”
VMDOm TIL that Vinegar Valentines Were Mean-Spirited and Insulting Cards That Came to Popularity in the Victorian Era For Sending to An Unwanted Suitor or Someone You Didn't Like
Bowr TIL the pilot who successfully ditched Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009 was an expert on airline safety, an NTSB accident investigator, published a paper on airline crew psychology in a crisis, and had his pilot’s certificate in gliders.
xV5Ao TIL that the Austrian Embassy in London has been at 18 Belgrave Square since 1866. It is the only Austrian embassy still in place since the Austro-Hungarian Empire.