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TIL that beetles were the first pollinators

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d8Agj TIL that in 2015 a huge 2100 foot (640 meters) wide human skull-faced asteroid, nicknamed the “Halloween Asteroid”, zoomed past Earth on Halloween. It completes one rotation every 2.94 hours, and will be seen again in November this year.
JYbKv TIL about the Kinsey Scale. Created by Alfred Kinsey in 1948. Kinsey thought that sexuality was fluid and could change over time. He created a scale 7 point scale with 0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual. The seventh point X is for asexuals.
95pm TIL Similar to how a baby human sucks on its thumb, baby elephants can suck on their own trunks for comfort.
XEEgP The answer isn't so simple.
1akAr TIL The Sbarro Family had great timing, selling their chain restaurant to a private equity firm in 2007, cashing out right before the recession and before the company had to declare bankruptcy... twice.