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TIL that a Milkshake Duck is a person who gains popularity on social media for some positive or charming trait but is later revealed to have a distasteful history or to engage in offensive behavior.

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dPAZ TIL Bhutan is the only country in the world that is carbon negative; it emits 1.5 million tonnes of carbon a year while its forests absorb 6 million.
gr89W Today I learned that there is enough evidence to suggest that orca are actually an occasional predator of moose, due to the fact that moose can dive up to 20' for vegetation underwater in killer whale territories.
gg6W TIL that there are fossilized forests with more than 300 ft tall (100 meters) trees in argentina that have been buried in ash for 150 million years
MXdW TIL Thomas Edison’s last breath is stored in a test tube
4d5 TIL There’s a donut shop in Portland, OR that used to have Nyquil and Pepto-Bismol donuts