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TIL electric cars can drive through deep water unscathed

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a8NOb TIL one of the reasons Target Canada failed was because some items wouldn't fit on the shelves properly. This was due to item dimensions being entered into their system in inches, rather than centimeters.
xVnko TIL that the masked booby bird on Galapagos lays 2 eggs about six days apart and the stronger chick (typically the elder) will evict the weaker out of the nest where it will almost always die. Two eggs are laid as “insurance” in case one doesn’t hatch.
nEyr TIL some animals commit suicide because a parasite is “Brain-Jacking” them. One example is Acanthocephala, which infects crustaceans, and forces them to swim to the water’s surface so they’re eaten by ducks.
wJ4P TIL in 2012 Germany agreed to provide compensation to a new category of Nazi victims — 80,000 Jews who fled ahead of the advancing German army and eventually resettled in the former Soviet Union. As of 2012, Germany has paid $89 billion in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since 1952.
JOy1 TIL that in 1980, a Texaco oil rig drilled into the top of a salt mine underneath Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, causing the lake to drain into the sinkhole – swallowing 11 barges – and a nearby canal to reverse direction. All 55 miners in the salt mine escaped. The lake is now permanently saltwater.