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TIL that nearly 1 billion birds die annually in the US due to window collisions.

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9wpWX TIL that a few billion years ago an Earth day was only about 19 hours
VMwom TIL “&” used to be the 27th character in the alphabet. Originally pronounced ‘and’ the ABC’s ended X,Y,Z and and. To clarify, people would say X,Y,Z, and, by itself, and. Or, incorporating the Latin phrase, X,Y,Z and ‘per se’ and. “And per se and” got contracted to ampersand. *
465R TIL that it’s easier to have an orgasm while wearing socks.
Z8QV4 TIL that Japanese Honeybees have adapted to kill Murder Hornets by vibrating together in a ball around the hornet and using their combined body heat to cook it alive
9XQX TIL:DNA barcoding was used to discover that of 1215 seafood samples from 674 restaurants and grocery stores in 21 U.S. states, a full third were mislabeled; The menu says red snapper, but it’s actually tilapia. The white tuna, meanwhile, is really escolar, while the seabass is Antarctic toothfish.