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TIL the year 2100 will skip being a leap year.

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yZde TIL that North Carolina banned using the latest climate change science to help plan for coastal policies and sea level rise.
lnJa TIL eating raw potatoes can make you sick to your stomach due to indigestibility, toxins, and bacteria.
d81eB TIL of the Circassian genocide, in which 80-97% of the total population were either killed or expelled by the Russian Empire.
N7rkP TIL Elephants are being hunted for their tusks so much that some populations of elephants have now actually evolved to be tuskless.
loX9a TIL that the first reference to butter in our written history was found on a 4,500-year-old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was made. Also, the ancient Irish, Scots, Norsemen, and Finns loved and valued butter so much they were buried with barrels of it.