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TIL Chevy Chase dropped the n-word on the set of Community.
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TIL about Batesian mimicry: a non-poisonous butterfly mimics the bright colors of poisonous ones. Predators avoiding the poisonous colors prey on dark-colored butterflies, favoring the survival of mimics. This increases the frequency of alleles for mimicry in the non-poisonous population.
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TIL that in Return of the Jedi, the Ewoks spoke in high-speed Tibetan.
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TIl Forensic Lip Readers have analyzed silent footage from World War 1 and were able to reconstruct conversations that were previously thought to be lost in time.
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TIL that in the 50s, Orange Julius stands handed out Bible tracts, but by the 70s, adopted the devil as their mascot before being sued.
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TIL the oldest known zoo dates to c. 3500 BC in ancient Egypt.