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TIL a baby llama is called a cria

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8abgZ TIL that all of the actors who played the Doctor in the 1999 Doctor Who parody special "The Curse of Fatal Death" had all been considered for the role of the Doctor at some point during the main series.
b9L87 TIL That nobody really knows how to correctly play Beethoven's famous "Für Elise" - original notes were never found and were published years after Beethoven's death by Ludwig Nohl. Pianists are still arguing how to play this piece.
7JlM TIL A Russian company won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 for developing a method to turn military explosives into nanodiamonds. These nanodiamonds can be used as light beacons for cancer treatment.
lMNK TIL there is a cruise ship named “The World” where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe
9wVpX TIL that Isaac Hayes's, the voice of Chef from South Park, decision to leave the show was actually made by his entourage, all of whom were ardent Scientologists, and that it was made after Hayes suffered a stroke, leaving him unable to make such decisions on his own