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TIL Sydney has an annual duck fashion show! The Easter 'Pied Piper Duck Show' individually dresses up each duck, covering daywear, evening and period attire, and bridal couture

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XX4E TIL to find interstellar life, one of the things astronomers look out for is a Dyson Sphere, a power plant which harnesses the power of its solar system’s sun by surrounding it with solar panels. It is theorized to be a logical necessity for a spacefaring civilization to sustain intergalactic travel
VBrmm TIL that between 1840 and 1930, a pod of killer whales helped whalers shepherd and kill baleen whales by herding them into a bay then swimming to the whalers to alert them of the target whales
7nZr TIL that spiders tune each strand of their web to a specific frequency by making some strans tighter than others so that when something is caught in it, the spider can easily pinpoint where it is. This is also used for determining whether what cause the sound is a food or a potential mate.
JYvJ4 TIL that Hershey's designed a customized chocolate bar for the troops during WW2 called "D ration bar". It was so thick that soldiers had to shave slices off with a knife before chewing on it. By the end of the war, more than 3 billion ration bars had been produced.
WvrA TIL when TGI Friday’s announced their $10 Endless Appetizers deal, a woman sat in a Friday’s for 14 hours eating plate after plate of mozzarella sticks to see if they were truly “endless”. They were.