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TIL that fireflies are the most efficient producers of light in the world, even when compared to modern light bulbs.

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GApN TIL that there is DNA evidence proving that Polynesians visited the Americas (Chile) in the 1300s, well before Columbus ever reached the New World; there are also stories of Polynesians seeing Antarctica around the year 650, “a place of bitter cold where rock-like structures rose from a solid sea”
0dMRp Til that equivalents of earthquakes on Mars are called marsquakes
e0lpg TIL Shakey’s Pizza did little research when looking to expand into new markets and instead just followed Kinney’s Shoes, opening pizza parlors in cities where Kinney’s opened new stores.
MVZK TIL That, in an American experiment, when showed gay porn, 80% of the homophobes had an erection compared to 34% of the non-homophobic subjects
47DX TIL France owns a small island off the coast of Newfoundland that is entirely comprised of rock (St. Pierre). The streets are carved into the rock, and instead of cemeteries, inhabitants carved tombs into the island which are there to this day.