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TIL the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge lead to a significant gene discovery

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KOEmR TIL that Manta Rays have shown evidence of being sapient/self-aware and are the smartest fish in the ocean outside of dolphins
DEaJ TIL $44 billion worth of gift cards have gone unredeemed since 2008
neGyW TIL that the island of Great Britain was formed by the collision of the Laurentia Craton and the Microcontinent Avalonia, known as the Caledonian Orogeny, the border of which is coincidentally similar to the borders of present day England and Scotland.
JYX08 TIL: Chickens' heads are gyroscopic. Move their bodies but their heads stay steady.
0wLBA TIL about the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, "They say that history is written by the victors, but the Civil War has been the rare exception.....the South’s version has held sway in our schools, our literature and, since the dawn of feature films, our movies." — Mick LaSalle