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TIL that prairie dogs have a language with over 50 unique words including ones for “human” and “human with gun”.

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5YPBQ TIL that in Finland people use the internet on their mobile phones ten times more than the OECD average because of the unlimited network access
xVKvD TIL that the cheapest and cleanest means of transport for scientists in the Antarctica is a tent on a sled powered by a giant Kite
6M9Z TIL that the US House of Representatives has an official mace that can be used to threaten unruly congressmen.
QPV9 TIL the term “Carjacking” originated in Detroit, MI
8eQKG TIL An archaeologist spent ten days at Canada's Fort Conger historic site at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island to scan it with a laser to make a 3D model of it. Conger was where Peary employed Inughuit people from Greenland to help him reach the pole