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TIL 8,900 children in the USA receive amputations each year due to lawn mower accidents

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loDka TIL that in 2011, an elderly woman who was searching for copper accidentally sliced through an underground cable which left the whole country of Armenia without internet connection.
4Bob TIL: Genghis Kahn is considered the greenest invader in history, as his murderous conquests killed so many people once cultivated lands returned to forest.
6EYAW TIL Fireflies are the most efficient lights in the world. 100% of energy is emitted as light. Fireflies: larvae & eggs glow, talk to each other with light, imitate each other, then eat other fireflies, are on almost every continent, taste bad, are medically and scientifically useful, adults live<1mo
WarL TIL that the reason students have summer off is because, in the 1800s, it was simply too hot to go to school, so students just didn’t show up anyway. Lawmakers eventually saw the sense in this and fought for a school-free summer for students.
1aOBP TIL that if the last of Iberian lynx population (94 in 2002) died out, it would be the first feline to become extinct since the sabre-toothed tiger 10,000 years ago.