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TIL that normally life bonded birds get “divorced” sometimes...

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o5Vr TIL the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships have been held annually in Finland since 2000. The event was created by a Nokia employee to create awareness of the rise in toxicity levels in landfills and lakes caused by discarded phones. The farthest throw was in 2014 at 362.3ft (110.42m).
Y7mgv TIL gum isn’t biodegradable. 105 tonnes of “gum” trash are produced each year.
lRn5 TIL falcons are females, tiercels are males. Therefore, the Atlanta Falcons are all girls.
6JLX TIL that some of the Mayflower Pilgrims were not escaping from religious persecution in England, but rather the tolerant Dutch Republic that they feared was influencing their children.
PPVL TIL that Astronomers had made a sweet discovery: simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets.