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TIL ostriches have very long intestines, measuring 46 feet
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TIL For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000 year cycle. The area is next expected to become green in about 15,000 years, in 17,000 AD.
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TIL alcohol companies don't have to display nutrition information on their products in the USA because they aren't regulated by the FDA. Instead, they're regulated by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
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TIL courts are increasingly turning to website Urban Dictionary to clarify modern slang language. It has notably been used in a supreme court sexual harrassment case in Tennessee in 2013.
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TIL that a town in North Carolina banned solar energy because they thought it would “suck up all the energy from the sun”
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TIL there is desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate has been kept filled with candy since 1965. It’s called the ‘Candy Desk’.