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TIL A baby porcupine is called a ‘porcupette’

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oBNbE TIL Edmund Clint, a child prodigy who in his short life of less than 7 years painted 25,000 paintings.
VBLOD TIL 50 years ago, a modified prototype of the Concorde supersonic jet was used to follow a solar eclipse for 74 minutes, a record that still stands today.
E70X TIL that had JFK not been assassinated, the Soviet Union and the U.S. would have created a Space Union which would have resulted in both the US and the Soviet Union landing on the moon together (at 12:11)
mxBxo TIL that citric acid, one of the most common food additives (sodas, ice cream, processed sweets, cider, baby food) is usually not made from lemons, but by feeding sugar to black mould through an industrial process.
javM TIL that the rightful heir to the North Korean ruling dynasty, Kim Jong-nam, has been living in exile in China since 2001 after traveling to Japan on a forged Dominican Republic passport using a Chinese alias, Pang Xiong, which means “fat bear” in Mandarin, in an attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland