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TIL I learned that its feral cats, not outdoor pet cats, that are to blame for birds dying off

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RmL1 TIL in 1940 the incredible Antarctic Snow Cruiser was a behemoth vehicle designed to assist Adm. Perry’s Antarctic exploration but was a colossal failure as it could not operate in the snow. It was abandoned and its whereabouts is unknown.
4Eva TIL that a scientific study concluded that Cow Tipping is impossible and an urban legend. Cows are hyper-aware of their surroundings and it takes 2,910 newtons of force to topple them over. They also sleep lying down.
x6yB TIL Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined the offer
awQjM TIL the oldest evidence of writing in the western hemisphere is a 3000 yr old stone tablet found by construction workers in Veracruz, Mexico and proved the Olmecs were a literate civilization.
1axOr TIL: That spiders can regrow limbs assuming they have at least one molt cycle left in their life time. The limb starts smaller then its other limbs but can grow bigger, until normal size, after each molt. This can however come at a cost of the overall size of the spider.