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TIL that wild turkeys can fly up to 55 mph(89 kph) in short bursts.

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a5Nb TIL That there is a program called Rigs-to-Reef that transforms old oil rigs into reefs, and that there are over 3800 oil rigs on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana.
mx5gy TIL that due to a researcher’s offhand comment about octopus DNA seeming “alien”, many news outlets mistakenly began reporting that cephalopods had actually come from outer space.
XWMD TIL Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.
QJRb9 TIL The bellybutton is so dirty scientists are finding new unknown bacteria. One person had bacterium previously found only on Japanese soil, where he had never been.
XEW6j TIL that margarine was illegal in Canada until 1948, and was smuggled in from Newfoundland. In order for Newfoundland to join Canada, They amended the Constitution to protect their margarine production.