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TIL IKEA is planning to be 100% energy-neutral by 2020.

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Zp5VR TIL that older termites are used as suicide bombers.
Brk6e TIL that nearly half of the world’s twins are born in Africa. The small West African nation of Benin has the highest concentration of twins in the world while Japan has the lowest rate of twinning.
KYLKR TIL The classic Budweiser Frogs commercials from the 90s were directed by Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Pirates of the Carribean, etc.)
vP5GB TIL: The original penguins or Great Auk was a species driven to extinction by man. Scientists in the 1600s noticed and tried to prevent it through numerous laws, it failed. In 1840 the last auk in Britain was beaten to death with sticks as the men thought it was a witch causing storms.
aJVo TIL that there’s a mathematical formula, that when graphed, can visually reproduce itself