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TIL that marine officials in Honduras trained sharks to hunt Lionfish, which were invading the population.

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pYJXO TIL A Ramsar site refers to a wetland area recognized as globally significant under the Ramsar Convention, also known as 'The Convention on Wetlands.' This international environmental treaty was signed on February 2, 1971, in Ramsar, Iran, under the patronage of UNESCO.
dDnmj TIL: There is a slightly smaller, almost identical penguin to the emperor penguin, called a king penguin
kEV1 TIL - The size that acorns grow to is partly dictated by how large the mouths of birds and squirrels are - if the acorns grow too large the animals can’t disperse them away from the tree which is critical for germination an seedling growth
4yMa TIL that in 1961, one giga FLOPS would have theoretically cost $8.3 trillion USD (adjusted to inflation) whereas today one giga FLOPS costs 8 cents.
PYaAe TIL that the Hershey's Kisses Holiday Commercial has aired every season since 1989