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TIL squirrels are more intelligent then I thought

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NoLQ TIL Charles Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood, before having 10 children, three of which died before the age of 11. This lead him to wonder whether close genetic matches had an impact on health, adding to his theory of evolution and the passing of traits to offspring.
m1JxE TIL about Vis-O-Matic the pre-internet online shopping service of the 1950s
RGma TIL rocker Keith Moon was so destructive to hotel property that once he insisted that the limo return to the hotel because he forgot something. He then went up to his room and tossed the television into the swimming pool below. When he got back into the limo he said, “I nearly forgot.”
ANAo7 TIL that the flaming chalice for Unitarian-Universalism was created by an Austrian Jewish refugee named Hans Deutsch, who took inspiration from flaming chalices of oil at ancient Roman and Greek altars
JBOQ TIL the blue whale, weighing in at 170 tons, is way bigger than any dinosaur ever was and probably the largest known animal to have ever existed.