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TIL some species of caterpillar ballistically eject their poop, known as frass. Older caterpillars shoot farthest with the record distance at 153cm, the equivalent of a 76-yard field goal in football.

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ngyo TIL in 1988 Michael Jackson called Matt Groening and asked to be a guest voice on The Simpsons. He performed in “Stark Raving Dad” under a pseudonym and wrote the song “Happy Birthday Lisa”. Later, he would write “Do the Bartman” without receiving any credit.
ADd7o TIL there is a confederate Mount Rushmore in Georgia
gAvW TIL that three men from Yemen sued NASA for invading Mars. They claim that they “inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago”.
d8RA9 TIL all corgis suffer from achondroplastic dwarfism
WBW9 TIL that Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Classification System, had “a persistent inability to control himself around women”. At Columbia “it was rumored that he asked for their bust sizes with their applications”; not true, but he did ask for photographs because “you cannot polish a pumpkin”.