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TIL there’s a city in Georgia with a golf cart path infrastructure over the whole town, where the large majority of the population own golf carts and the kids grow up driving them instead of cars.

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Oo6BY TIL about synchronous fireflies. They only appear a few places in the world. The males all flash at the same time signaling to the females they are the right species. The light display is so popular, over 20,000 people apply to a lottery to get into Shenendoah National Park every year to see them
6vbZ TIL one million moms threatens to boycott JCPenny over mother’s day ad that featured two moms… JCPenny’s responded by featuring 2 dads. for father’s day ad.
Qw8k TIL Dr.James Watson, Nobel Prize winner & co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, believed that babies shouldn’t be considered alive until 3 days after birth so that if the baby is sick, disabled, deformed, or deemed otherwise unacceptable, the baby can be legally left to die or euthanized.
Ypb6B TIL There is a theorem inspired by the division into slices of a pizza, presented in 1967 and still under study today.
wokYM TIL housecats are responsible for an annual bird mortality, estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion. And mammal mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals. In the US alone.