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TIL Bird populations are plummeting, and cats alone are responsible for killing billions of birds every year in the lower 48 states.

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698ZQ TIL that the first native English speaker to teach English in Japan was half-Native
OonR7 Not all planes end up in aircraft graveyards. There's a whole industry waiting to recycle commercial planes once they're retired and taken out of service.
AN5dw TIL Lightning can trigger nuclear reactions. The energy from a lightning bolt can create isotopes like carbon-14 in the atmosphere
RXKa TIL what happens when we drink sea water: A kidney can’t make urine from a concentration of salts of more than 2%. Seawater is made of 3% salt, so if we drink it the kidneys have to use existing water from our body to dilute the extra salt, which in turn makes us even thirstier.
JYNGV TIL in 2016 a man named Joshua won an entire resort located on the Micronesian island of Kosrae in a raffle he paid $65 to enter. When he won it, the resort was free of debt, profitable and had more than 20 years remaining on its lease.