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TIL a single Episcopal Church in New York City owns property and investment holdings valued at more than $10 Billion USD

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my1O TIL that French chef Bernard Loiseau committed suicide in 2003 after Michelin told him that they were concerned about the quality of his restaurant’s cooking.
16xy4 TIL that “elephant-sized” sloths and “car-sized” armadillos once built giant tunnels that still stand today
Xxr8 TIL for 15 years London, Ontario contained the largest concentration of serial killers in the world
VMRND TIL Since female dairy cows are much more valuable than bulls we use machines to sort bull semen into male vs female semen. These machines work based on the fact that XX semen have more DNA than XY, and thus greater mass, and can be automatically discriminated when colored with florescence.
awNKA TIL The Boreal Chickadee adapts to cold climate by lowering its body temperature from 108°F (42°C) to 85°F (29°C) in order to conserve their fat storage.