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TIL Elmo is the only nonhuman to testify before the US Congress

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7r88M TIL scientists caught a skink evolving. Researchers found that skinks living below a mountain in warmer climates would lay eggs. At higher climates, the cold caused the skinks to hold their eggs inside for longer until they would hatch internally for live births.
gxA4 TIL Methane Hydrate, a new and completely untapped reservoir of fossil fuel exists in huge amounts in the deep sea. Is estimated that there could be more potential fossil fuel contained in the methane hydrates than in all classic coal, oil and natural gas reserves combined.
nWD49 TIL During the American Revolutionary era tar and feathering was used as a form of vigilante justice to punish British Loyalist traitors
Aea TIL; William Randolph Hearst ran a campaign to destroy the hemp industry because hemp became a very cheap substitute for paper pulp and timber.
LkvnQ TIL: There's a $200 million abandoned village of 732 Disney-like castles in Turkey