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TIL Wild mice actually enjoy running on exercise wheels.

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D17gY TIL that the character of Ann Veal, George-Michael Bluth's girlfriend, on "Arrested Development" was meant to be played by a different actress in each episode, but it was decided that Mae Whitman would be the permanent actress because she made "the whole not-memorable thing work"
R5ZG4 TIL In the 1590s, a Spanish admiral made up an entire nation, complete with dozens of fake coats of arms, so that he could claim to be a nobleman and join a fraternity of knights. In doing so, he accidentally popularized the pan-South-Slavic movement, and caused the founding of Yugoslavia in 1918.
88A8 TIL during WW2 Canadian soldier Leo Major singlehandedly captured 93 Nazis in the Netherlands. He later singlehandedly captured the town of Zwolle from the Germans. And he was blind in one eye.
mx15x TIL a 10,000 man Mongol army was destroyed by Egyptian Mamluks after being fooled by a feigned retreat and getting surrounded, a tactic often used by the Mongol's themselves
ddVd TIL Peter Parker’s address is an actual home in Queens New York, and is owned by the Parker family