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TIL,Cameraman, Frankie Biando, has been filming Sesame Street since the first season and still operates Camera 1 on today’s set.

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KYVKw TIL that between the 16th and 19th century temperatures went down by less than 1°C and this somehow caused an increase in zoophilia
Yp5Jr TIL that spiders use earth’s electric field to fly vast distances in a process called “ballooning”. Charles Darwin first theorized that spiders use electric force to fly in 1832 when he observed the HMS Beagle was covered in webs while at sea.
R7nAw TIL Dr. Dolittle, the star of a series of lighthearted children's books about a guy who could talk to animals, was dreamt up by Hugh Lofting while in the gruesome carnage of the trenches of World War I, as a distraction, in letters to his children.
QNNwp TIL that if all the spores of a single giant puffball mushroom had a 100% germination success, followed by the same for its offspring, the resulting mass of fungi would amount to 800 times the volume of Earth
7800O TIL the word "bundt" is trademarked (oddly, for the pan, but not the cake itself)