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TIL That the reason penguins waddle is because it is the most efficient way to move so they burn less fat.

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0wdgA In less than two generations, population sizes of vertebrate species have dropped by more than 50 percent. According to 2014’s Living Planet Report, this means we have lost over half of our birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and mammals.The situation is dire, but are we too late? National Geographic Emerging Explorer Shah Selbe expands on what has caused this decline and if it's possible to reverse humanity’s effect on these populations.
YpYx TIL Adwaita, the world’s oldest tortoise that died only 6 years ago, was born 26 years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
0dg5N TIL the IBM computer Deep Thought was named after the computer in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
yKn8 TIL that 19 “states have imposed some kind of fence against community broadband. Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Texas have established a full ban.”
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