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TIL Puffins Spend Almost All Their Time at Sea in the Winter

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JYZkv TIL - Disney auditioned cars for the role of Herbie in the 1968 Love Bug film. Disney set up a casting call for cars, including Toyotas, a TVR, Volvos, an MG and a pearl white Volkswagen Beetle. The Beetle was chosen as it was the only one that elicited the crew to reach out and pet it.
KOK9J TIL about The tragedy of the commons- an economic problem in which every individual has an incentive to consume a resource at the expense of every other individual with no way to exclude anyone from consuming resulting in overconsumption and ultimately depletion of the resource.
doNZ TIL that the guy who made the Wall Street “charging bull” statue still owns it, as it was originally Guerrilla Art.
m4JR TIL a giant leopard seal tried to adopt a national geographic photographer
NXlGb TIL that in 2022 Jeremy Clarkson wrote that he dreamed of the day Meghan Markle would be paraded naked and pelted with excrement, making reference to a scene from Game of Thrones - despite having referenced the same scene while defending her in 2018, claiming it was what her critics wanted to do.