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TIL that it’s possible for the Golden Globe Awards to win an Emmy.

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eOn5 TIL that the phrase “third world” was coined during the Cold War and refers to any country not involved in the competition of democracy vs communism at the time.
oPvL TIL The Vatican purchased enough carbon offsets for the enitre Papal city in 2007. To this day, the promised planting of a “Vatican forest” has not happened.
neAKr TIL: Chickens will sometimes eat their own eggs and have to be actively discouraged from this behaviour, before they acquire a “taste” for them.
d865K TIL that even a gentle human voice is enough to make apex predators such as mountain lions flee in terror
JgJk TIL There is a movie about a murderous car tire named Robert, and the entire movie is the tire rolling around, killing people and blowing things up.