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TIL that squirrels can theoretically survive a fall from ANY height due to their size and mass.

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1jV7 TIL A report found that, for every $1 invested in the US National Park Service, the American public receives $4 in economic value.
neQ8b TIL Lions who have been kicked out of their pride (pack) have gay sex to bond before trying to take over another pride.
8Vm8 TIL a child that was Bart’s age when The Simpson’s first premiered would now be the same age as Homer.
ANxLn TIL in 1924 French colonists deliberately introduced an insect to Madagascar in order to kill off plants which native pastoralists used as food and animal feed - leading to a famine which killed hundreds and displaced thousands, but cleared land and made labor available for French sugar plantations
x6lX7 TIL that the first kiss captured on camera was between two women in 1887 by Eadweard Muybridge (contrary to Edison’s ‘The Kiss’ film, widely accredited to being the first kiss on camera - 9 years later)