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TIL that black and green olives are actually the same species of olive, except that they are picked at different times of the year.

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NZP8 TIL that in Nikola Tesla’s elderly years he became obsessed with feeding pigeons particularly a white female one, speaking of her he said “ I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life”
5EK9 TIL a medium-sized dog has the same environmental cost as a SUV
8elBb TIL that Mondragón Corporation, a worker-owned federation of cooperatives founded in 1956, is today the 7th largest Spanish company
X0mMk TIL that there have only been 29 female balloons in the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, 11 of which are novelty balloons.
QJgQ9 TIL that "twitchers" are committed bird-watchers who travel long distances to see new species. They have their own jargon, including "nemesis" for a bird that has eluded them despite multiple attempts to see it, and "plastic" for a bird that escaped from captivity rather than being genuinely wild.