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TIL Elvis was born the year the orchestrated piece O Fortuna premiered

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9rGD TIL the world’s largest environmental organization makes millions of dollars off of an oil well on its land in Texas. The area is supposedly set aside for conservation, to protect one of the most critically endangered birds in America. The birds have now disappeared from the site.
J1QY8 TIL how alligators survive winters
Eg6DW TIL that onions don't contain the compounds which make you cry. The act of cutting the onion breaks open its cells and allows an enzyme to interact with amino acids resulting in Syn-Propanethial-S-oxide being produced in the air.
DQEgP Today I learned that from 1972 to 1994 the Office of Technology Assesment existed and functioned similarly to the FDA until it was defunded.
wKM7 TIL that Quentin Tarantino never knew his father, but his father latched on to Quentin’s fame in order to become an actor.