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TIL the baby noises heard in “Magic Dance” in The Labyrinth were dubbed over by David Bowie himself because he felt the actual baby didn’t perform as required.

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aBeN TIL the reason flamingos stand on one leg is to preserve body heat (water can rapidly draw away heat). In hotter weather, they tend to stand on two legs.
eWJD TIL one of Jupiters 62 moons, Europa, is thought to have twice as much water as Planet Earth
5VQnR TIL that Martha's Vineyard constitutes the County of Dukes County. This redundant name is due to the fact that it was formed as Dukes County in New York before being transferred to Massachusetts and reincorporated under its current name in 1695.
5Y78r TIL about the “Oh-My-God” particle, which, on the night of October 15, 1991, streaked across the Utah sky traveling at 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light with 320 exa-electron volts (EeV) of energy
xV7LB TIL that in 1978, an inspection of a damaged U.S. Navy ship revealed the remnants of claws from the tentacles of a giant squid. The claws were much larger than any that had been seen by scientists, indicating that the squid was of a size substantially greater than any that had been documented.