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TIL that, prior to the 20th century, squirrels were one of America’s most popular pets

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1a687 TIL Those who have been looking for work for half a year or more are more than three times as likely to be suffering from depression as those with jobs
a84o0 TIL Pluto is so far from Earth that it takes light 5.5 hours to travel from our planet to the other. The average distance between Earth and Pluto is same as the average distance of Pluto from the Sun, so light takes the same amount of time to travel between either.
16xjW TIL Bees could see the color difference between two pieces of “white” paper. Researchers used zinc white for one paper and lead white for the other, and although these look exactly the same to us, the bee could easily distinguish them, because they reflect a different amount in the ultraviolet
D85V TIL that the original Xbox was code named project Midway after the battle where America defeated the Japanese
5dKP TIL the US prison industry predict future demand by the percentage of illiterate 10- and 11-year-olds.