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TIL Mad Money host and stock market huckster Jim Cramer was a member of the Spartacist League (communists) in college

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6EVj8 TIL every Christmas in Lexington, Kentucky, you can pay off your tickets with canned food donations
DQB4V TIL that many animals spend much of their time doing nothing, even those we think of as particularly busy. "If you look at a colony of ants, or bees, or any social insect really, maybe a little bit less than half of them are just standing around doing what looks like nothing."
ADy9l TIL that the iconic theme to the original Legend of Zelda was arranged in one night from the music used in-game. Nintendo had originally intended to use a reworked version of Ravel's "Bolero", but discovered immediately before launch that the copyright had a month before expiration.
6QW7 TIL pillbugs (AKA roly polies) are not, in fact, bugs at all. They’re crustaceans, “closely related to lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.”
dDJd8 TIL that after returning from the Moon in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts were quarantined in a Mobile Quarantine Facility for 21 days to prevent any potential contamination from unknown lunar pathogens.