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TIL Italian law forbids school cafeterias from serving deep-fried foods

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ROGQ TIL that the recurrent laryngeal nerve in Giraffes is often cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to the “intelligent design” from God. The lengthy 15 foot nerve takes an inefficient, circuitous route; It exits the brain, goes down and around the heart, then back up to the Giraffe’s voicebox.
16lAD TIL about Sea Change, the world's first hydrogen fuel cell commercial ferry. It was launched in August of 2021, initially for the Bay area of San Francisco, CA, US. It is 75 feet long and holds 70 passengers. After burning fuel, the only emission is water.
0wMRL TIL about Pando, a colony of over 40,000 trees that are actually one organism. It's also known as the quaking aspen and The Trembling Giant.
Y767d TIL that, when writing Dracula, Bram Stoker was greatly influenced by his father’s interest in theatre and his mother’s gruesome stories about her childhood during the cholera epidemic in 1832.
AD1l7 TIL Apple almost put MS Windows on iMacs instead of Mac OS