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TIL that a larger brain generally means a longer yawn
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TIL Monarch Butterflies generally live for a couple weeks, until the 4th generation that lives for 6 to 8 months to migrate south.
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TIL that Lord Collingwood, Nelson’s second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, would carry a pocket full of acorns on walks in the countryside, planting them as he went so the ‘Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.’
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TIL a group of soldiers ran the Boston Marathon wearing full uniforms and 40lb backpacks, when the bombing happened, they were there to help
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TIL that surgeons were able to drain all the blood from a patient in order to remove clot from the arterie, and keep him alive for 20 minutes by reducing his temperature to 20 degrees celcius.
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TIL National Lampoon's Vacation was based on a short story called Vacation '58 by John Hughes, it ends with Clark Griswold shooting Walt Disney in the leg.