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TIL that DOGECOIN reached a peak market capitalization of over $85 billion in 2021

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NPwb TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed country, per capita, in the world (and the United States is primarily responsible).
0ZX1 TIL execution by mortar shell is a thing in North Korea
wLxeJ TIL that every day the average human heart pumps over 1800 gallons of blood through veins and other vessels
0wAQL TIL that in 1946 John Boyd Orr, a Scottish scientist, proposed the creation of a World Food Board to repel world hunger and protect global peace. The proposal was rejected as UK and USA refused to support it. As he resigned from his role in the UN, he warned that “food is more than a commodity."
4X9w5 People like to imagine that they’re the pinnacle of evolution, but the animal kingdom suggests otherwise. The discovery that bumblebees use hair on their legs to detect a flower’s electromagnetic field offers another reminder that human senses don’t always measure up. You share the planet with creatures that can smell veins, see colors you can’t imagine, and communicate through their feet. Here are just a few animals with senses sharper than yours.