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

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wPoE TIL when McDonald’s first introduced drive-throughs to China, the concept was so foreign that many people would pick up their food through the drive-thru, park their cars, and bring the food inside the restaurant to eat it.
wLVgY TIL 3.5 billions of years ago a day only lasted 12h
D1jag TIL sperm don't race to the egg. They are passively transported via "pumping & wafting", weeding out the high number of "duds" that human males have. Many are stored in side-channels for up to 10 days. The sperm introduced to the egg are a random sampling, & don't represent "survival of the fittest"
Oo5AR TIL that olives are essentially inedible when picked. It takes an extensive curing process for them to become edible, with no history of how an inedible fruit became such a popular fruit.
XEWgP TIL Kmart USA is down to its final 10 stores!