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TIL bacon & eggs is considered breakfast food thanks to a single marketing campaign by a bacon company.

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ADpRo TIL “We're currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.” That’s more than 10 species every day.
D1rXj TIL that before the arrival of Polynesians, New Zealand was occupied by large flightless birds called the Moa. The largest of these was the South Island Giant Moa which could reach up to nearly 12 feet tall, making them the tallest bird species in history. They only went extinct around 1445.
670W TIL there is a place called Two Ocean Pass at the continental divide, one stream goes to the Pacific, one to the Atlantic. A fish could make a 6,000 mile freshwater journey from one ocean to another through this creek.
pYvPO TIL that nine-banded armadillos always give birth to identical quadruplets.
en45 TIL Nigeria has suffered a cumulative oil spill equivalent to the Exxon-Valdez. Every year. For the past 50 years.