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Jun 10, 2020

TIL A Dutch start-up company have been able to start training wild crows so that they pick up cigarette butts and put them in bins for peanut as a reward.

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Jun 10, 2020

TIL the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles was so profitable that profits continue to help fund youth sports as recently as in the 2010s

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Jun 07, 2020

TIL the maître d’ of the Waldorf Hotel in NYC for 50 years, Oscar Tschirky invented the velvet rope and the Waldorf salad

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May 14, 2020

TIL that the seventh most populous city in the world, Mumbai, also has one of the highest densities of leopards (41 leopards) in a forest inside the city and the leopard population saves Mumbai US$18,000 by keeping the stray dogs population in check.

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May 08, 2020

TIL Alberta Canada is the largest inhabited land mass that has no rat population. Every territory surrounding it has rats, but high rat control efforts have kept them out.

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Aug 10, 2019

TIL 'Desire paths' is the term for the paths that are naturally created by people's footfalls when they walk around paved paths. Some universities and hospitals have avoided these by waiting to see where they formed naturally, then paving over established desire paths.

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Jul 31, 2019

TIL about the "sponge cities" in China. The scheme means that Wuhan and other areas in the scheme will have 20% of their urban land include "sponge features" (such as rain gardens and wetlands) by 2020 with an aim of retaining 70% of storm and flood water.

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Jun 08, 2019

TIL that Underneath the streets of Beijing, there are over a million people who live in nuclear bunkers.

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May 28, 2019

TIL as of 2016 the City of New York is owed $16 Million in parking tickets unpaid by diplomats

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Apr 27, 2019

TIL squirrels were originally placed in US cities as a way to reconnect city dwellers with nature

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Apr 04, 2019

TIL that there are currently more than a million people living underneath the streets of Beijing.

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