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TIL Wild mice actually enjoy running on exercise wheels.

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yE4V TIL that exactly 700 actual beds were precisely laid out on a beach and used for the cover of Pink Floyd’s album, “A Momentary Lapse Of Reason”. None of them were cardboard cutouts.
ANWDo TIL about the "Man of the Hole", the last survivor of an indigenous group in Brazil. He had lived in total isolation for 26 years after the massacre of his tribe before passing away in 2022.
PQRe TIL John Wayne once played Genghis Khan in a movie. He didn’t change his voice in any way.
5YQZn TIL a fossil rhinoceros skull was found in a gravel pit in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1335, and was thought to belong to a dragon. In 1590, the fossil skull was used to model a dragon statue which has been called the world's first paleontological reconstruction.
5YM7k TIL about Jane X. Lee who, as a graduate student, discovered the Kuipler asteroid belt, together with David C. Jewitt, whom she asked for material for her PhD project and thus began the search.