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STICKY You ever heard of Matar judíos? [720x2845 - 835KB]

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TIL American flamingos’ long legs appear as though their knees bend backwards, which is not the case. Flamingos actually stand on their “tip-toes” – meaning the prominent joint on their leg is their ankle. Their knee is hidden by feathers and is located close to the bird’s body.

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TIL Catholic Church wealth is impossible to calculate

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neologism...The invention of new words regarded as a symptom of certain psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia.

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TIL Silver purity ring is the symbol of chastity before marriage

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TIL Beefalo, also referred to as cattalo or the Canadian hybrid, are a fertile hybrid offspring of domestic cattle (Bos taurus), usually a male in managed breeding programs, and the American bison (Bison bison), usually a female in managed breeding programs.

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TIL the CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups.

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Transitive Property

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TIL former MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry reportedly approached the makers of Vaseline about endorsing the product and was allegedly rebuffed with a one-line postcard reading, "We soothe babies' backsides, not baseballs."

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TIL types of plastic

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TIL approximately 690 million pounds of turkey were consumed in the United States during Thanksgiving 2007. This equals the weight of 4.48 million individuals of average weight (154 pounds); the population of Singapore as estimated by the last census in 2005.

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TIL you can tear gas British passengers on the London Underground and completely get away with it. :)

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TIL a what to do at DWI Checkpoints [06:46]

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TIL the peregrine falcon is capable of soaring through the sky at up to 200 miles per hour during a dive. (For context, Ferrari’s fastest-ever consumer vehicle, the aptly named 812 Superfast, has a top recorded speed of 211 miles per hour. And that’s a literal machine.)

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TIL of the origins of 'Left' and 'Right' in politics

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TIL Napoleon’s most memorable—and humiliating—defeat came at the hands, well, the paws of a fearsome band of bunny rabbits.

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TIL that the story of Sada Abe, a woman who cut off her dead lover's genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of Japan's most notorious scandals.

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TIL Dee Snider toured with his own self-tribute band

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Til: about the american civil war

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TIL polar bears can swim for long distances and steadily for many hours to get from one piece of ice to another. Their large paws are specially adapted for swimming, which they’ll use to paddle through the water while holding their hind legs flat like a rudder.

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The Tesla Model Y Was The World's Best-Selling Car In 2024. Gas, Electric or Hybrid.

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TIL Blue catfish can survive in brackish, to almost salt water

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TIL the stick may be the world’s oldest toy

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TiL the Four Color Theorem the first major theorem proved by a computer

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The Number one cause of death in 2020...

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Could terrorists really black out the power grid? | Utility Dive

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