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TIL Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the feces of predators

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NXwOM TIL that January 1st came to be celebrated as the new year in 153 BCE, when it became the inauguration date of new Roman consuls. The Julian and Gregorian calendars carried this over from the earlier Roman consular dating system.
1aKV8 TIL that martial arts legend Sammo Hung has a large circular scar just above his lip on the right side of his face that he got when he was stabbed with a broken cola bottle in a street fight early in his career
8aOxP TIL: More corporations than corporeal human beings reside in the State of Delaware with more than 65% of Fortune 500 companies calling the state their home.
xxao TIL that a tool shop owner paid $100 for a locked abandoned storage unit, only to find the Lotus Esprit submarine prop from The Spy Who Loved Me inside. He sold it to Elon Musk for $825,000.
neVLP TIL In 2018, the word 'embiggen' from The Simpsons was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. It has been used in research papers on String Theory.