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TIL the welsh word for microwave is popty ping

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Ky6Q TIL farmers in Kenya are using elephants’ natural fears of bees and building “beehive fences” that keep wild elephants from trampling the crops. It keeps the farms safe, and prevents farmers having to kill elephants to defend their livelihood!
v1d5x TIL that Dick Van Dyke is a computer animation enthusiast and even designed 3D-rendered effects used in several of his shows
lowoG TIL hummingbird nests are the smallest in the world. Most species of hummingbirds weave spider silk into the nest for structural support and to make it more elastic to accommodate the offspring as they grow. Often lichen will be attached to the outside of the nest for camouflage.
j55M TIL South Koreans have been protesting in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul every Wednesday since January 8, 1992, demanding justice for comfort women in WW2 called Wednesday Demonstration
Bgr8K TIL that the Morse code at the beginning of the B-52’s song “Planet Claire” was a repeating message transmitted from a military radio station in Nova Scotia that translated to “Any and all allied warships, this is Canadian Forces Station Mill Cove…”