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TIL that Chia pets are so named because they are made with sprouted chia seeds

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l7Y45 TIL the band Counting Crows got its name from "One for Sorrow", a British divination nursery rhyme about the superstitious counting of magpies, which are members of the crow family. Singer Adam Duritz heard the rhyme in the 1989 film Signs of Life, which starred his friend Mary-Louise Parker.
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d10E TIL As a young boy being educated in Germany prince Philip always laughed at people performing the Nazi salute, as at his school this hand signal meant you needed to pee.
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