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TIL that we are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction called Holocene extinction

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ADPv4 TIL singer Edwyn Collins suffered a cerebral hemorrhage which left him able to say only four things: "yes", "no", "Grace Maxwell" (his wife's name) and "the possibilities are endless"
RkW9 TIL daschunds look like they do because they were bred to hunt badgers and other animals that live in burrows
YpVEG TIL that Irish dance is rumored to have started when the British banned dancing during the Irish oppression....leading them to start dancing with a stiff top half so that British soldiers couldn’t tell through home windows.
xwAD TIL An amateur Canadian weatherman predicted, in his own words, an unpredictable earth quake 3 weeks before it hit New Zealand.
Y7jbP TIL that while the filming budget for the movie Easy Rider was only around 400,000 dollars, an additional million had to be spent for the licensed music tracks.