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TIL that South African and Swedish scientists have discovered that dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way, and that they are the first animals proven to use our galaxy for navigation.

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E1PX7 TIL that Germany has a thriving community of people who are Native American aficionados, who study Native cultures, perform reenactments of Native and Wild West life, and even make "pilgrimages" to North America to visit important sites.
nWaab TIL that the Titanic was the place of discovery for tiny iron eating microbes. These microbes form icicle-shaped “rusticles.” Which consists of 35% iron compounds and a community of symbiontic microbes and fungi. “Halomonas titanicae” is expected to dissolve the Titanic by 2045.
Envp TIL that in 1899 a bolt of lightning killed a man as he stood in his backyard in taranto, italy thirty years later his son was killed in the same way and in the place. On October 8, 1949 Rolla primarda, the grandson of the first victim and the son of the second, became the third
5E0B TIL Although GPS is free for the entire world to use, its operating cost alone is $2 million a day.
oBMxW TIL 70% of guns used by the Mexican cartels are smuggled in from the US