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TIL that the highest flying bird is the Ruppell’s vulture; one was injested by a jet at 37,000 feet.

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bMVQ TIL a 35 year-old gold miner, using only hand tools and dynamite, moved 5,800 tons of granite, building a half-mile tunnel to move his ore. He finished the project at age 67.
56VB TIL canned 100% pumpkin is actually 100% squash. Pumpkins can be stringy and watery and the USDA is lenient with gourd terminology, so it’s perfectly legal to label a food product as “pumpkin” when, in reality, it’s made from a different variety of squash.
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