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TIL Skunks don't hibernate, but instead enter torpor; Mating season is Feb to March...

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D15lP TIL you experience your Billionth (1,000,000,000) second of life during your 31st year
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5Ym0p TIL 33 actors from all the Star Trek series all starred in the cartoon Gargoyles (1994 - 1997). It also had 5 writers from Star Trek and two artists who had worked on the Marvel Star Trek comics.
eoRD TIL that in 41 states, parents without high school diplomas or GEDs are permitted to homeschool their children
QJoGX TIL about Nikolai Vavilov who, obsessed with ending famine, created the world's largest collection of plant seeds, advancing the genetic study of cultivated plants. He faced anti-Mendelian forces during the Stalin era, leading to arrest in 1940. Ironically, he died in captivity, by starvation.