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TIL: The tiny island of Ōkunoshima in Japan (otherwise known as Usagi Jima or "Bunny Island"), previously the WWII manufacturing site for thousands of tons of poison gas, is now home to hundreds of feral rabbits and nobody is quite sure where they came from.

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d8jvd TIL Starlings are every bit as intelligent as other more common pet bird species and can learn to talk.
WkOkX TIL the "D" in the SD card logo is actually an optical disc, because the image was borrowed from Toshiba's unsuccessful Super Density (SD) Disc standard.
YZ5W TIL you can calculate the radius of the Earth using just a stopwatch.
D1E1p TIL the 35-yr-old owner of a boat called "Naut Guilty" was found not guilty in a boating incident. Another man was at the helm who failed to put the boat into neutral as a 19-yr-old woman swam near the boat; she lost her arm in the propeller. Both men pleaded guilty to furnishing alcohol to minors.
QJa1X TIL that you should wait at least 30 mins before brushing your teeth, after sugary or acid food. This is because brushing too early aggravates the acidic damage caused to tooth enamel.