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TIL The Typical U.S. Home Changes Hands Every 13.2 Years

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8aZr4 TIL That elephants stay cancer free as they have 20 copies of a key tumor-fighting gene; humans have just one.
xwW1 TIL that Jeff Bezos’ parents put several hundred thousand dollars into Amazon.com to get it started.
9YgND TIL zoologist Francis Buckland kept the remains of a cat under his bed at Winchester College, dug up and ate a dead panther from a zoo (declaring the meat "not very good"), and took his pet bear Tigleth Pileser to a meeting at Oxford University dressed in a cap and gown.
X0wx6 TIL to mark 10 years of North Korean-UK relations, 'Bend it like Beckham' was broadcast on state TV becoming the first-ever Western-made film to air on television in North Korea.
KO0bE TIL that birds not only can see in Ultraviolet, but that their feathers have patterns which can only be seen in UV. This explains why the males and females of certain species may look the same to us, but in reality, are very different in eachother’s eyes.