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TIL September 1, 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the death of the last Passenger Pigeon

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69BB8 TIL that the slang term "The boonies", used to describe remote rural areas, is short for "The boondocks" which comes from the Tagalog word "Bundok", which means mountains. Boondocks was coined during the Philippine-American war of 1899.
9aKp TIL baby hippos will use a crocodile’s spine as a chew toy and won’t be attacked!
W76m4 TIL South America is the only inhabited continent in the world without monarchies. All South American countries are presidential republics except Suriname (a parliamentary republic) and French Guiana (a French overseas department).
MeZR0 TIL The Moon-Phases are not caused by the shadow of the earth
LkYjp TIL that the number of bacteria on earth is estimated to be 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is five million trillion trillion or 5 x 10 to the 30th power.