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TIL that on his 42nd birthday Douglas Adams was invited to play onstage with Pink Floyd

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b9pLa TIL, in 1948, a man wore 30-pound, 3-toed lead shoes and stomped around a Florida beach in the night. The footprints lead people to believe that a 15-foot tall penguin was roaming their lands. He kept up the prank for 10 years, visiting various beaches. The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later.
vYk4 TIL the “french” in french fries actually describes the way the spuds are sliced, not their country of origin.
RJjw TIL bats make up 25% of all mammal species
pBKp TIL Judith Barsi (Voice of Ducky from The Land Before Time) was brutally shot and killed along side her mother by her father at the age of 10.
R9v9 TIL “Moby Dick” was inspired by “Mocha Dick”, a famous albino whale who survived many skirmishes with whalers; he finally was killed coming to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf had just been killed