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TIL that slugs huddle not as a social behavior, but for the primary function of conserving water/reducing evaporation.

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grrN9 TIL Arthur Blake competed for the Boston Athletic Association and it was after a 1000 yard race he said in jest "I'm too good for Boston, I ought to go over and run the Marathon, at Athens, in the Olympic Games". This led to him being noticed by a stockbroker, and sending Arthur to the 1896 Olympics
oBvB8 TIL the only reason Hunter S. Thompson lost the election for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado was because the Republican and Democratic parties conspired together to maintain their oligopoly on government.
grlyD TIL the Freedom Tower is 1,776 feet tall to commemorate the year of the U.S.’s Declaration of Independence
OomAg TIL That under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machine gun to kill a hedgehog.
WkY9 TIL that our universe isn’t old enough for any of our red dwarf stars to have become blue dwarfs yet. So blue dwarfs are still theoretical.