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TIL that initially the adults of Sesame Street didn’t believe Mr. Snuffleupagus was real, but this was changed to avoid having kids feel that adults wouldn’t believe them when they had something important to say.

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pYRjZ TIL In Brazil there is a genus of insects where females boast of a penis which they use to extract semen from males over the course of 40 hour copulation sessions
OGPBe TIL of the 1850 shipwreck of the Jenny Lind on a South Pacific coral reef. 28 people survived for 37 days on a tiny patch of sand because a passenger created a water distillation system from salvaged cookware capable of making 25 gallons a day of freshwater.
X0ZO6 TIL that a stingray in an aquarium has either cloned herself or has been impregnated by a shark
EJ6W TIL “Maple syrups” Mrs. Butterworth’s, Aunt Jemima and Log Cabin do NOT countain ANY Maple products. Flavour comes from corn syrup and caramel.
X5RR TIL the minimum number of people to populate a space colony with minimum inbreeding is 160.