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TIL butterflies are often unintentionally drawn to look like they're dead

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LkQgm TIL the Christmas songs: 'Here Comes Santa Claus', 'Frosty the Snowman' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' were all performed by the same person, Gene Autry, within 3 years of each other (1948-1950).
l7L9B TIL Jingle Bells was originally called “The one horse opened sleigh” and was written as a Thanksgiving or Drinking song.
5KAr TIL that Stephen Hawking married the ex-wife of the guy who first designed his speech synthesiser
j6Kna TIL that The first animals to orbit the moon were two Russian tortoises inside Zond 5 spacecraft, The tortoises not only survived the journey, but returned to the Earth alive . On 21 September 1968, six days after the launch, Zond 5 was retrieved from the Indian Ocean.
K94R TIL the FAA investigated an airline for staging a wet tshirt contest with high schoolers during a flight