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TIL that hummingbirds can remember every flower they’ve visited, even across vast distances, and adjust their feeding routes with near-perfect timing to match nectar refills essentially making them nature’s tiny GPS-enabled robots.
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TIL that in 1844, the Provisional Government of Oregon banned all black people from the Oregon Country. Though rendered legally void upon the enactment of Amendment 14 to the US Constitution in 1868, the ban technically remained on the statute books until 1926.
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TIL that there are estimated to be about 10 quintillion insects on the planet -- meaning there are over a billion bugs per person
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TIL about Christa Pike, the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in USA. She was sentenced for killing a fellow student, Colleen Slemmer, in 1995. Pike was only 18 at the time of the murder and was motivated by jealousy.
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TIL the last 7 NBA MVP's have been born outside the USA
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TIL in Werner Herzog's 1979 film Nosferatu the Vampyre, the opening sequence featured real mummified bodies.
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TIL before 1974 a trillion in the US was equal to a billion in England. (A billion US was a Milliard UK)
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TIL A human placenta is worth $50,000
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TIL that the United States bombed Laos with the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years. That adds up to 270 million bombs total, or about 100 bombs per Laotian at the time.
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TIL that Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth
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TIL Cuckolding is a sexual fetish or fantasy where an individual derives sexual pleasure or arousal from watching their partner engage in sexual activity with another person.
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TIL Arthur Judson, a manager of orchestra musicians and conductors, in 1926 put together a string of 16 radio stations, creating what became the CBS radio network. His biggest advertiser, a cigar maker, son became interested, and bought the network. His name was William Paley.