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6EZxX TIL The Black-capped Chickadee hides seeds and other food items to eat later. Each item is placed in a different spot and the chickadee can remember thousands of hiding places.
rNVMx TIL: The Mercator projection creates increasing distortions of size as you move away from the equator (the Greenland problem). Greenland appears to be the same size as Africa, yet Africa's land mass is actually fourteen times larger.
loEO7 TIL The surviving heir to China's imperial dynasty worked in Beijing, had no regrets, and thought his own simple life immeasurably superior to those of his ancestors. "I don't envy them at all. My guess is that even if they lived in palaces, they must have spent every waking moment worrying."
wLDeJ TIL that, despite being one of the world's biggest bands ever, U2 has only had two number one hits on the Billboard Top 100: "With or Without You" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," both of which come from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree.
ANrRd TIL when Crystal Pepsi first came out, Coca-Cola released a competitor called Tab Clear. However, they marketed Tab Clear in a way that was meant to hurt Crystal Pepsi's image by association. The "born to die" strategy worked, and both campaigns were dead six months later.