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TIL Over 900,000 earthquakes occur worldwide each year.

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OQ6L TIL In the 19th century naturalist John James Audubon observed a flock of passenger pigeons over Minnesota that took three days to pass his observation point and, in doing so it totally blocked out the sun so that the entire area lived in a bird-created total eclipse.
E1pDo TIL to make this snowflake, it's so easy.
9Y0M6 TIL Rapper 6ix9ine has had a $200,000 (£163,000) donation to a children's charity rejected. The No Kid Hungry campaign said it has a policy of rejecting funding from donors who do not fit with its values
nWmJB TIL that there is a species of frog called the "purple frog" that spends most of its life underground and only emerges for a few days each year to breed during the monsoon season.
6EJAw TIL that real dead bodies were to be used on the set of 'Apocalypse Now' to provide authenticity; their supplier, who also provided supplies to medical schools for autopsies, was a grave robber