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TIL PETA waged war on Pokemon for virtual animal cruelty.

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yVWla Today I learned that if you collapse an underwater bubble with a sound wave, light is produced, and the mechanism has not been figured out.
5YM88 TIL that the FDA has a document based around cloning animals
B56r TIL Earth is being shadowed by a minor planet called 2010 TK7, a 300 meter diameter trojan asteroid that orbits the sun in a spiral pattern every 365.3 days, 60° ahead of Earth’s track through space. It has a gravitational force 1/20000 that of Earth and was only discovered in 2010.
XE8Yj TIL: The landscape design where a grassy incline slopes downward to a retaining wall to contain livestock or as barrier that doesn't spoil the view, is called a Ha-Ha.
neLjo TIL that Maine, not Florida, is the closest US state to Africa.