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TIL that the animal in the logo of Mozilla Firefox is not a fox, but a red panda, also called firefox in chinese

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e0prb TIL Harold Ramis directed some episodes of The Office
dMV9 TIL John Bachar, free solo rock climber, was able to perform a two finger pull up with 12.5lb in his other hand and a two handed pull up with 100lb strapped to his waist.
GYj4 TIL Carl Sagan wanted to put “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles on the Voyager Golden Record. Although The Beatles favoured the idea, EMI refused to release the rights and when the probes were launched in 1977 the song was not included.
Wk9w4 TIL that when Clennon King applied to study at the University of Mississippi in 1958 he was arrested and placed in a mental asylum because he was black and therefore considered insane since no other black person had ever tried to enter the university.
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