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TIL that penguin colonies can be discovered and tracked from space by observing the droppings they leave on the ground

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7rNAX TIL 1 billion birds die a year from running into window glass
LQVNQ TIL Pachucas were Mexican American women who wore zoot suits during the 1930s-40s, a sign of rebellion due to fabric rationing for the war effort. Their look included thinly-plucked eyebrows, dark lipstick and wearing their hair styled into a pompadour, in which they kept razor blades.
8ead8 TIL about Magdalena Solis, a serial killer in Mexico who in the early 1960s convinced the illiterate and poor town of Yerba Buena that she was the reincarnation of an Inca Goddess known as "The High Priestess of Blood" she partook in piking members of the town while alive and drinking their blood.
1mAX TIL Fleetwood Mac almost thanked their coke dealer on the on the album credits of “Rumours”
XBrk TIL because so many Russian men have died at war since WW2, the gender ratio in Russia is currently 86.8 men per 100 women, compared to 98.3 men for per women in the U.S. and 101.8 men per 100 women worldwide.