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TIL Turkeys blush when excited

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QJYyX Today I learned that Dr. Seuss's name should actually be pronounced "Soice", but he embraced the "Soose" mispronunciation because it rhymed with Mother Goose.
p6Z TIL that there is an island in Japan that is overrun with tame rabbits
E1aGV TIL about the Mercury 13 - a group of women in the early 1960's that passed the same vigorous tests as male astronauts and was part of a privately funded project that aimed to send them to the moon
YYoW TIL the wrinkling of fingers and toes when taking a bath is an involuntary reaction of the autonomic nervous system that increases the ability of hands and feet to grip wet environments.
6OMQ TIL there was a point in the production of The Powerpuff Girls in which some people were late on their storyboards due to playing the newest Zelda game at the time. The studio was actually shut down for about a month so that they could get through the game before resuming production again.