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TIL Male mice are utterly terrified of bananas

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4XowJ TIL there was once a Viking king who ruled as the King of England...for about 5 weeks.
9wpm6 TIL The absorptive surface area of the small intestine is about 250 square meters (almost 2,700 square feet)
8eloP TIL the peace symbol was designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958 and is a super-imposition of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", taken to stand for "nuclear disarmament".
yQLQe TIL “E pluribus unum” (Latin for "Out of many, one" and in use since 1776) was replaced by Congress in 1956 with “In God we trust” as the official motto of the USA.
Gxb7 TIL that a small population of Mammoths survived on the Wrangel Island until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza were completed.