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TIL that there is a city in GA called Santa Claus with Christmas-themed street names

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6RVQ TIL that the average age of NASA engineers at the time of Apollo 11 was 28. Nowadays it’s 47
VMyom TIL about Superfecundation and Superfetation. Rare but possible in humans, in Superfecundation the mother produces several eggs at the same time, they are fertilized by different fathers, and she has twins. Superfetation is when a woman ovulates while pregnant and has two pregnancies at once.
oBXeY TIL that the 'leaf sheep,' a sea slug native to Japan, is an animal that can photosynthesize. It eats algae and retains the chloroplasts that plants use for photosynthesis and can live for months on photosynthesis alone.
W7Ebd TIL that woolly mammoths were still alive on Wrangel island (off Russian mainland in the Arctic circle) until about 4 thousand years ago - when the pyramids were built!
dDrwK TIL: 2 and 3 toed sloths are more distant evolutionary relatives than humans and chimpanzees, 30m vs 6m years