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TIL Ibex can climb near-vertical surfaces with ease

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e0yLb TIL John Steinbeck after visiting Kiev in 1947: "If the US were completely destroyed from New York to Kansas, we would have about the area of destruction Ukraine has. If six million people were killed, not counting soldiers, 15% of the population, you would have an idea of the casualties of Ukraine"
9w7d6 TIL that 27 U.S. states are at least partially north of the southernmost part of Canada.
5Vg8B TIL that tipping and bribery are related, and countries with higher rates of tipping behavior also tended to have higher rates of corruption
VBEaG TIL there was a pyramid constructed in Park Avenue, New York to commemorate the end of WW1. It was made out of 20,000 helmets from their vanquished German foes.
kOOv4 TIL "hauntings" are the side effect of certain sound waves and high electromagnetic fields