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TIL the US has the third lowest average commute time in the OECD, with only Finland and Sweden being lower.

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XErrj TIL elephants are highly empathetic and generous even towards other species. Once an elephant found a rancher with a broken leg and dragged him under the shade of a tree, guarding him and gently touching him with her trunk
OodQ7 TIL of Encephalartos woodii, a near-extinct tree with only a single surviving male specimen. Without any female specimens the only way to reproduce it is to clone the male.
Q8Pa TIL the Spanish Inquisition was in fact expected. They gave notice 30-40 days in advance to allow for confessions.
OGave TIL about the Fire Lily, a South-African flower that only blooms after wildfire.
KYD8G TIL it took 15 years and 5,127 prototypes before James Dyson shipped his first vacuum cleaner.