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TIL about the inaturalist seek app, an app that can identify wild animals, plants, and fungi from the photos you take - with achievements for identifying new things in your area.

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9REG TIL Australia is moving so fast that they plan to adopt a moving GPS system by 2020 to compensate for the changes
yQEKX TIL Doritos can be used as safe firestarter because of how flamable the cheese dust is
6EGYW TIL the verb “eavesdrop” is a back-formation from the noun “eavesdropper”, which was formed from the unrelated noun eavesdrop (“the dripping of water from the eaves of a house”). An eavesdropper was someone who stands at the eavesdrop (i.e., next to the house) so as to hear what is said within.
6emX TIL there is a garden in a bottle that has only been watered once and is still going strong 40 years later!A.K.A “self sustaining ecosystem”
woM1M TIL that France did not adopt the Greenwich meridian as the beginning of the universal day until 1911. Even then it still refused to use the name "Greenwich", instead using the term "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds".