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TIL the average child in the UK spends less time outdoors than prison inmates

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wo54P TIL sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes, which is longer than many marine mammals including dolphins
x0ro TIL Mathematician Paul Erdos could calculate in his head, given a person’s age, how many seconds they had lived….when he was 4.
85kK TIL the city of Sao Paolo passed a “Clean City Law” a decade ago banning outdoor advertisements. Over 300,000 ostentatious business signs, billboards, posters, bus and taxi ads were taken down. Removing ads revealed civic issues, including hidden slums previously masked by adverts.
WkpZ4 TIL: Stefan Lux, a Czech reporter, committed suicide on the floor of the League of Nations to bring attention to the dangers of Nazi Germany.
grPJ7 TIL we know leafcutter bees are at least 30 million years old because we’ve found fossilized leaves that age with the telltale circles leafcutter bees make.