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TIL that Sigourney Weaver's father Pat Weaver was an executive for NBC who is credited with creating both the Today and Tonight Shows

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8ey8X TIL: Squirrels gather nuts and seeds during the fall and bury them in the ground or hide them in their nests over a large area (scatterhoarding), and often forget them, resulting in new trees (mutualism). In winter, they eat them after finding the buried nuts.
b9yP9 TIL that until 2009 it was against the law to yell, hoot, whistle or sing in the town of Petrolia, Ontario, Canada.
QxBa TIL Blink, the band that forced blink-182 to add the “-182” to their name ended up opening a show for blink-182
4XvKa TIL In 1906, a Moroccan serial killer was sentenced to be walled up alive after he was found guilty of murdering 36 women (the bodies were found buried beneath his shop and garden). His cries for help were heard for two days before he went silent.
XdAP TIL That Europeans in the Middle Ages never actually thought the Earth was flat. The idea that they did is called the Myth of the Flat Earth.