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TIL that people used to eat mummies

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a80gZ TIL an earth year had more days in the far past. scientists made this discovery after comparing corals/clams which have corresponding growth rings for each day. depending on the age, fossils record 400 to 420 days instead of our typical 365 a year.
pW6O TIL in 2008, James “Angry Video Game Nerd” Rolfe, who works with Gametrailers.com, which is owned by Viacom, had his YouTube channel temporarily taken down due to his videos matching content owned by Viacom. The content ID match was to his own videos.
4X9Bo TIL of the Mother of All demos given by Doug Engelbart. The demo talked about all the possibilities of modern computing. A year later the first link on what would be the internet connected UCLA and Stanford.
l7GX7 TIL female bats of some species are able to store sperm inside their reproductive tracts for several months. In this way, they can mate in the autumn but conceive in the spring, and thus avoid raising young in the middle of winter. Some animals can store sperm for years.
b9rDE TIL the band Cannibal Corpse appeared in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective because Jim Carrey was a fan and wanted them. They declined at first because of a tour but agreed after production rearranged their schedule to accommodate them and when they met Jim "he rattled off lyrics to 'Rancid Amputation'."