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TIL the large tires on tractors are commonly filled with liquid rather than air

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R550l TIL: An estimated 10% of all adult male robin deaths and 3% of female deaths are caused by other robins attacking them
mx95p TIL that Jimmy Boyd's I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus was condemned by the Roman Catholic Church in Boston when it was released on the grounds that it mixed kissing with Christmas. Boyd was photographed meeting with the Archdiocese to explain the song. After the meeting, the ban was lifted.
NXMV6 TIL Air is both a gas and a fluid.
X0V0Q TIL That, in 1991, the Bryan Adams song "Everything I Do" (which had reached #1 worldwide) was declared to be not sufficiently Canadian by the regulatory body CRTC denying it more frequent airplay in Canada. This despite Adams being made a member of the Order of Canada in 1990.
dWKE TIL the “an average person eats nine spiders in their sleep” statistic was invented in the early 90’s as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply because they come across them on the Internet.