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TIL: Supernova remnants can still be visible 40,000 years after stars explode

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v1DBB TIL that prostitution exists among animals. They trade sex for different objects. Penguins trade sex for stones and chimpanzees trade food.
69vdY TIL about Creme Puff - a cat - who was born in August 1967 and died in August 2005 at a record 38 years old.
OoMRg TIL The world's oldest known wild bird is Wisdom the Laysan albatross. At 67 years old she is still laying viable eggs and raising chicks. Wisdom has outlived several mates and raised anywhere from 30 to 35 chicks.
DQ95v TIL that the font Calibri has been instrumental in exposing document forgeries worldwide, revealing fake documents in cases ranging from the Pakistani 'Panama Papers' to a U.S. bankruptcy filing, because the font didn't exist during the dates the documents claimed to be from
VBWp8 TIL that tax easement can be recompensed to investors for not developing an unsustainable project;as compensation for projected loss of investment