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TIL that one of Minecraft’s cave sounds secretly hides a creeper face when visualized in a spectrogram.

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neNbG TIL an 18-month-old German Shepherd named Luna fell off a boat in the Pacific Ocean, swam 2 miles to a nearby island, and survived for 5 weeks by eating mice before she was rescued by a team of Navy staffers. She was found to be slightly under-nourished, but in perfect condition otherwise.
x6x11 TIL Exxon is a re-brand of Esso, which, in turn, was a phonetic initialism re-naming of Standard Oil of New Jersey (“S.O.”)
e00wn TIL there exists an official Super Mario manga that ran from 1988 to 1998
epkAJ TIL that Teddy Roosevelt, while in the White House, had 10 Dogs, 5 Guinea Pigs, 2 Cats, a Hen and a Rooster, a Macaw, a Barn Owl, a Horned Frog, a Rat, a Rabbit, a Snake and 2 Ponies. To make things more interesting he also had a Badger, a Laughing a Hyena, a Bear and a Lion
e090n TIL that prog-rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer have a live album called "Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival". In the original liner notes, it says the festival happened in "Vega Baja, San Juan." However, Vega Baja is not in San Juan. Also, the festival took place in Manati, a different area altogether.