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TIL that zookeepers show pandas "panda porn" to arouse them to help make more babies.

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rN6kW TIL at 84 years old, Harvard professor Tom Lehrer was approached by rapper 2 Chainz to sample his 60-year-old song. Lehrer granted permission, saying, ' I grant you permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2 ? '
Wr69 TIL that “baby carrots” are almost all just regular carrots cut and reshaped to look like small carrots. It was a marketing gimmick.
dMa8 TIL Irish airline tycoon Michael O'Leary acquired a taxi license for his luxury Mercedes S500L so he could use Dublin’s bus lanes for his daily commute.
Lv7Z TIL that in 1746, Jean-Antoine Nollet conducted an experiment in which 200 monks formed a circle (1.6 km in circumference) and were linked by iron wire. He then had electricity pass through them which shocked all the monks simultaneously. He concluded that the speed of electricity was very high.
QJDad TIL when Weird Al Yankovic asked Kurt Cobain to parody 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' that Kurt asked him if it would be about food, and Al said it would be about how no one could understand his lyrics. Kurt found that extremely funny, and said absolutely.