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TIL Ravens make toys—a rare animal behavior—by using sticks, pinecones, golf balls, or rocks to play with each other or by themselves. And sometimes they just taunt or mock other creatures because it’s funny.

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wWyo TIL that the very unmuscular Australian comedian Hamish Blake once won the heavyweight category in the Mr New York State bodybuilding competition after entering as a joke, as he was the only competitor heavy enough to qualify.
9YLkG TIL Quaker Oats fed disabled children radioactive oatmeal
1d9d TIL NASA has decided to use Metric Units for all operations on the lunar surface when it returns to the Moon. The Vision for Space Exploration calls for returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and eventually setting up a manned lunar outpost.
Oorka TIL that Polaris, the famous north star at the tail end of the little dipper constellation, is actually 3 stars very close together that look like a single star
beDQ TIL that Benjamin Franklin didn’t patent any of his invention.