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TIL: PETA kills 97% of the animals it takes in, that are healthy and adoptable.

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7rwJx TIL Animals are increasingly shifting from day to night to avoid people. Even activities like hiking and camping can scare animals, causing them to become more active at night.
b6DeN TIL that in 2023, a massive Greenland landslide shook the Earth for nine days, baffling scientists. A huge rock-ice avalanche hit a fjord, creating a global seismic "hum" detected worldwide. The impact's repetitive pulses kept the planet vibrating for days.
KO6ER Today I Learned a Futurama writer with a PhD in applied math created a mathematical theorem just for the purpose of using it in a Futurama episode to expose young people to higher level math.
PYwXJ TIL that Dark Energy is calculated to make up 67% of the known universe, while Dark Matter makes up a further 27%, while what we can actually see and measure, conventional matter, makes up less than 5% of our universe. "Dark Energy" is really a placeholder for "we don't know what this is."
6Dnw TIL Starting in 1945, more than 8,000 Dutch people have adopted the grave of an American WWII soldier buried at Margraten, Netherlands. They visit regularly with flowers and graves are passed to the next generation. There is a waiting list to adopt a grave.