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TIL Cap'n Crunch's full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch

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9br7 TIL The Marine Corps Birthday is celebrated every year on 10 November in a cake-cutting ceremony where the first slice of cake is given to the oldest Marine present, who in turn hands it off to the youngest Marine present. The celebration includes a reading of Commandant Lejeune’s Birthday Message.[
8GrL TIL that six soviet cosmonauts, while working in space on the MIR station, reported to mission control all six of them were seeing aliens with human faces and large wings. Pravda confirmed the report and said that it was a group hallucination.
pYW14 TIL, Heinz registered their own Pantone to fight 'Ketchup Fraud'
d8b4K TIL lizards in areas hit by hurricanes have evolved grippier, bigger toe pads in order to hang on against high winds, even within one generation. Researchers studied 188 anole lizard species in 70 years of hurricane data. In areas spared by hurricanes, lizard toe pads were smaller.
v1mbD TIL C-3PO's actor, Anthony Daniels, flubbed most of his lines on the first day of shooting STAR WARS. After repeatedly messing up, George Lucas came up to Daniels and said, "You can say anything you like. We can fix it later." Daniels then proceeded to speak his next lines in gibberish