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TIL that not all clumps of twigs and leaves in trees are bird nests — some are actually squirrel nests called "dreys."

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WkJa4 TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government was worried Japan would invade Hawaii and seize all the U.S. currency there. As a precaution, the U.S. burned $200 million in cash circulating on the islands, and replaced them with freshly printed bills with “Hawaii” stamped on them.
a8Lmo TIL about Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons that has a 12m (20km) high ridge of mountains running almost perfectly along the entire equator, dividing the moon into a bright side and a dark side
aKrA TIL that In 70,000 B.C. Human beings almost went extinct; dwindling to as few as 40 ‘breeding pairs’ after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano!
J18jQ TIL about the Norway ''Oil Fund'', which was established in 1990 to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. It currently has over $1,477 billion in assets.
GARKQ TIL that the first national speed limit law of 55mph passed in 1974 in the US was not because of safety concerns, but because fast-traveling vehicles would have exacerbated the oil shortage at the time