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TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic was valedictorian of his class before earning a bachelors degree in architecture.

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9Yen7 Today I learned that conservationists recycle Wimbledon tennis balls as predator-proof shelters for Harvest Mice (The mice you see pictured sleeping in tulips).
M7rAB TIL about Sophia-the first robot to receive legal citizenship of a country. She was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship in 2017.
neL0Y TIL about pan-human love. In past 300k years, we overlapped with 6 known human species. All but us now extinct, though we interbred and carry the DNA of at least two (Denisovans, Neanderthals). Some Neanderthal skeletons carry our DNA too. Denisovans and Neanderthals mixed separately from us also.
a8rBJ TIL that the guy who wrote “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” is now an 87-year old competitive runner, having won multiple national and international competitions in his age group.
oXgK TIL there are 43 giant sculptures of the heads of former U.S. Presidents, rotting away in a Virginian field due to a failed tourist attraction named “President’s Park”.