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TIL that Chicago skyscrapers have to keep their lights off at night twice a year to keep the 5 million migrating birds from becoming disoriented and dying

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DQARj TIL about the Darién Gap, the Panama/Colombia border where no paved roads are built. This gap of densely packed marshland bisects the Pan-American Highway, cutting South and North American off from having a contiguous highway route across the two continents.
wvgo TIL The university of WV has had pod cars on a track that transport people around their campus for decades
xWVB TIL that An avenue is traditionally a straight road which emphasize arrival at a landscape or architectural feature and A boulevard is usually a widened, multi-lane arterial street with a median and landscaping between the curbs and sidewalks on either side.
OGx5g TIL 117 billion humans have ever been born. Those alive in 2022 represent 6.8% of the total number of people who have ever lived, up from a total world population of 5,000,000 ten thousand years ago
mXDR TIL that a tequila worm living on an agave plant is actually indicative of a lower quality tequila due to infestation