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TIL that bears maintain muscle mass during hibernation by recycling urea - the nitrogenous waste normally removed by urination

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yQ16w TIL the 1966 Camaro with a 140 hp, 3.8 liter I6 engine and three-speed manual transmission had a fuel consumption of 5.4 MPG or 43.6L/100 km.
15JD TIL Most of the gold that is present today in the Earth’s crust and mantle was delivered to Earth by asteroid impacts
b9nm0 TIL: Each year The U.S. plants at least 1.6 billion trees or about 6 trees for each one used.
R5lmQ TIL: The U.S. intelligence community actively monitored for decades the diplomatic and military communications of numerous Latin American nations through encryption machines supplied by a Swiss company that was secretly owned by the CIA.
epyV4 TIL that "Killing baby Hitler" is an ethical and theoretical physics experiment. It explores the idea of time-traveling to assassinate infant Adolf Hitler, delving into ethical consequences and temporal paradoxes.