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TIL that turtles survive car hits and can suffer for weeks on the road before eventually dying. :(

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yVdla TIL that NATO states would not be obliged to defend Hawaii if it were attacked by a foreign power. This is because Article 6’s geographic ranges exclude Hawaii.
5Y4wr TIL that a company providing IP geolocation data assigned 300 million IP addresses to a rural Kansas farmhouse. This led to countless visits by police trying to find missing people, hackers, identity fraudsters and stolen cars.
VMolm TIL stock scammer Jordan Belfort originally wanted to be a dentist, but backed out when his college dean told him on the first day that "The golden age of dentistry is over. If you’re here simply because you’re looking to make a lot of money, you’re in the wrong place."
9wJnQ TIL Of the great oxydation event: a single type of oxygen producing bacteria is responsible for terraforming earth from largely oxygen free to the earth we know today, giving rise to oxygen based life and causing a mass extinction of anaerobic life forms, wiping out about 80% of them
aAKN TIL: There is a method being tested to allow female same-sex couples to have children that are 100% biologically “theirs”.