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TIL that prairie dogs have such a complex means of communication that they can embed descriptions of predators within their calls, and even have a specific call to describe a man with a gun.

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61B7 TIL Stephen King’s website has a “Dollar Babies” page - stories he’s willing to sell to film students for $1.
M5aK TIL Conan O'Brien graduated as valedictorian at his high school, then went on to Harvard where he graduated magna cum laude.
eQlE TIL Steven Spielberg directed a TV horror movie in 1972 called Something Evil - about a family in a Pennsylvania farmhouse inhabited by demons - that has never been released on home video.
v1kn4 Today I learned about Time Crystals, discrete crystals that have a structure that repeats in time, causing them to resist entropy.
1anXV TIL Cambodian rock of the 1960s and 1970s was a thriving and prolific music scene, but was abruptly crushed by the Khmer Rouge communists in 1975, and many of its musicians disappeared or were executed during the ensuing Cambodian genocide.