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TIL Pandas were carnivorous but they inexplicably lost their appetite for meat during evolution

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rNVn1 TIL of Matthew Beard (Stymie Beard from the Little Rascals aka Our Gang) had 13 brothers and sisters. Because his paycheck helped the family to survive, his parents allowed him to rename one of his younger brothers. His parents subsequently allowed him to name his other siblings as they were born
wLLa1 TIL that the term 'leotard' was named for the first person to complete the Flying Trapeze Act in 1859, Jules Leotard
VJD TIL that Josef Stalin tried to breed ape-men, with human females and male apes
BgWjK TIL: "Square Grouper" was the nickname for bales of marijuana dropped out of airplanes and fished out of the ocean in the 70s-80s.
kxMW TIL that if you took the entire US Debt and converted it to pennies and stacked them all on top of each other, it’d be so long that it’d take light just under 2.5 hours to traverse the distance