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TIL that in 2002, researcher Andrew Balmford found that eight-year-old British children could identify 80% of Pokémon, but only 50% of common wildlife species.

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MegL8 TIL during the tornado outbreak of 1974, forecasters in Indiana, frustrated because they could not keep up with all of the simultaneous tornado activity, put the entire state under a blanket tornado warning. This was the only time in U.S. history that an entire state was under a tornado warning.
Y71PG TIL Mice can't fart (or burp)
aP90 TIL Carrie Fisher was addicted to cocaine AND survived an overdose during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back.
BrRND TIL That Octopus And Squid Possess The Super-Power To Rewrite Their RNA. Researchers say that this type of RNA editing can allow a single octopus gene to produce an array of various proteins from the same DNA.
Lr0V TIL Concrete is the second most consumed substance on Earth after water