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TIL that a sheep’s wool never stops growing and it can actually roll over on its back from the weight and die of starvation

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n0Go TIL that in 2011, tens of thousands of Detroiters petitioned to prevent Nickelback from playing at the NFL Thanksgiving Day football game halftime show
R59Ka TIL that the phosphorus used in fertilizer for food production is considered a non-renewable and finite resource we will run out of someday
4a9J TIL A shibboleth is a word that can only be said correctly by native speakers. During WW2, American troops used the word “lollapalooza” to check unidentified people. Japanese spies would often go to areas posing as allied men, if the first two syllables come back as rorra, they would kill them.
RvG6 TIL NASA wants to establish a floating cloud city to study Venus. The innovative concept involves helium-filled, solar-powered airships, which could contribute to humans permanently occupying the atmosphere of the hottest planet in our solar system.
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