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TIL that sloths only poop once a week and when they do, it can weigh up to a third of their body weight.

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oRRVK TIL that a Canadian politician got expelled from her party for stomping and performing voodoo on a Bush doll in a "22 Minutes" segment.
6EmRm TIL in 1975 Otrag, a West-German company, developed cheap transport rockets. The USSR became nervous, and American corporations concerned about low-cost competitors. American media came to use crude Soviet propaganda to sabotage them, making Otrag evicted from their Congolese base (more in comments)
4XpKX TIL Betty Robinson, who won the first Olympic 100m for women in 1928 at just 16, was later involved in a plane crash. A man who discovered her wrongly thought she was dead and drove her to an undertaker. She awoke from her coma 7 months later, before returning to win a relay gold in 1936.
vP0wj TIL that each commercially available batch of Botox is tested for toxicity on hundreds of mice
ZpR8R TIL that sharks, whose oldest known fossils are from ~450 mya, are much older than Polaris, the youngest, largest, and brightest star in the Polaris system being only 70 myo.