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TIL Congress’s calendar for 2013 consisted of 239 days off.
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TIL the only reason the penny is still around is because of the powerful Big Zinc lobby
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TIL That Preying Mantis do not follow you with their eyes. The pupil that seems to watch you is an effect generated by their nonmoving eyes when your field of vision lines up with one of the many cone shaped structures that make up their eye allowing you to see down the hole.
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TIL that when an animatronic langur infant was used to film wild langurs, the monkeys adopted it--until it was eventually dropped and ceased movement, at which point the monkeys believed it had died and gathered together to mourn the dead infant
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TIL that Bart Simpsons hit song “Do the Bartman” was written by massive Simpsons fan, Michael Jackson.
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TIL that the “Keep Calm and Carry On” WWII propaganda poster was only intended to be used in the event of a Nazi occupation of the UK, should England have lost the Battle of Britain; a “last case scenario”.