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TIL that a fossilized Daddy Longlegs was found sporting a 99-million-year-old erection

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wXE7 TIL that Florida passed a law requiring toddlers in state-run schools to listen to classical music every day, and in 1998 the governor of Georgia budgeted $105,000 per year to provide every child born in Georgia with a tape or CD of classical music.
XQDE TIL a pig named Lulu saved her owner’s life while the woman was having a heart attack. The pig heard the cries of pain, forced her way out of the yard, ran into the road and ‘played dead’ to stop the traffic. A driver stopped, the pig led him to the trailer, he heard the woman and called 911.
mxybM TIL kelp is not a plant. it is in the protist kingdom.
LQ0Gp TIL not only are timeshares usually scams, companies claiming to help extract you from timeshares are often scams
8aD5b TIL about The Shark Arm Murder of 1935 where an aquarium shark in australia vomited up a human arm, leading to a murder investigation tied to organized crime and the cocaine trade.