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TIL a startup is teaching crows to pick up cigarette butts from city streets

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Y7QA TIL that even though Lenin believed certain sexual practices to be immoral and bourgeois, the soviet union allowed them anyways because they didn’t believe the government had to right to prevent them.
xVA5g TIL The Instant Pot pressure cooker can serve as a laboratory autoclave where more expensive units are not available (E.g. remote labs) or attainable (E.g. lack of funding). It even passes the Geobacillus stearothermophilus spore inactivation test.
PY6Dn TIL that speakers of the Altaic language family (Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Turkic) all share a common genetic heritage associated with the independent domesticatiom of Millet in the Far East
1aejX TIL: In US presidential elections, it is possible to win the most electoral college votes +AND+ win the popular vote and yet still not win the presidency. This happened in 1877 meaning Rutherford B Hayes was awarded the position by a senate and house vote
n9k9 TIL Google intends to scan all known existing 130 million books, totaling 4 billion digital pages and 2 trillion words and plans to have it finished by the end of the decade.