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TIL A Sloth's claws are finger bones

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KaAE TIL there is a resident in MIT’s Random Hall called “The Milk” that is an expired carton of milk coming up on 22 years past its expiration date
vP1Pr TIL in 1993 Burger King Briefly Offered Table Service During Dinner Hours, Offering Popcorn As A Table Appetizer
0Qrp TIL upon landing in England, William the Conqueror slipped and fell; to play it cool he grasped two fistfuls of soil and proclaimed ‘England is ours!’
5Yyxn Today I learned that Taiwan has 5 branches of government. Aside from Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches there's the Examination Yuan which validates qualifications of civil servants and the Control Yuan which is an investigative branch that audits, evaluates and prosecutes govt officials.
rRERy TIL that 'upper case' and 'lower case' letters refers back to the days of movable type, where capital and non-capital letters were kept in separate drawers (or cases), with the capital letter usually stored on top.