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TIL there is a copy of the Statue of Liberty in England made from left over copper from the original

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7rPVp TIL that a man had his Twitter account suspended in 2017 after making a death threat towards a mosquito.
e0WGE TIL that the soda can tab is engineered to be operate as two different levers: a second-class lever pulls open the middle vent which depressurizes the can and then the first-class lever opens the drinking spout.
j6Xya TIL Dolphins have no sense of smell.
wy96 TIL Pavel Durov lost his company (Russian Facebook) after refusing to hand over data of Ukrainian protesters to Russia’s security agencies. He also donated a million dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation.
woAB8 TIL about the Cerutti Mastodon Site. A site that some researchers claim shows evidence of some type of hominid living in N. America ~130,000 years ago. The previous estimate was only ~24,000 years ago.