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TIL that Indigo Buntings migrate at night using the stars to navigate.

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vvaj TIL that Breyers, once known for their extraordinary commitment to only natural ingredients, now calls most of their products “frozen dairy dessert” because they are so full of processed crud that the FDA won’t allow them to be called “ice cream.”
d8VoB TIL that the discovery of elements 95 and 96 (americium and curium) was first announced by physicist Glenn Seaborg on the children’s radio show Quiz Kids, in response to one of the children asking whether any new elements had been discovered at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the war
e0OB4 TIL the British used to call mainland Europe "The Continent." As more continental European tourists travel to England and the Americas, they push for a breakfast of pastry, fruit, and coffee they normally eat. That is why hotels serve a "Continental Breakfast." Also because it's cheap.
WkMMd TIL that there are over 89,000 children on the Sex Offender Registry (some as young as 7 years old!)
5Y8QR TIL The current Afghanistan head of state Ashraf Ghani is the first peaceful transfer of power since the Afghan state was founded