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TIL the American Public Power Association has a ‘Squirrel Index’ data tracker to track squirrel attacks on electrical power systems. They found that the two peak periods of highest squirrel activity are May-June and October-November.

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oB5Yo TIL Heteropaternal Superfecundation is referred to as a form of twinning where genetically the twins are half siblings or they have different fathers. In 2013, a New Jersey woman found out her twin daughters have different Daddy thru DNA test when she sought for child support on her partner.
bdMp TIL of the word “dumbsize”: to reduce the staff numbers of a company to such low levels that work can no longer be carried out effectively.
yQRBw TIL, in 1839, Charles Goodyear accidentally created Vulcanized Rubber when he dropped some rubber on a hot stove with sulfur, hardening it, making it much more durable.
5dxD TIL Atheists and Agnostics are the most religiously literate group in the USA
VB7l0 TIL Police Scotland’s 100 per cent homicide detection rate means that every one of the 605 murders committed since the inception of the single national service in 2013, has been solved.