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TIL Opossums are like tick vacuums, eating as many as 4,000 per week

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4ow6 TIL That Michael Caine’s real name is Maurice Micklewhite
8eM6X TIL of Daniel Sickles. He shot the son of Francis Scott Key in broad daylight for sleeping with his wife, and was the first person acquitted under the insanity defense. Later he was appointed a Union general, and lost his leg disobeying orders. He regularly claimed to be 6 years younger than he was.
6O8m TIL: JFK said this: ’… I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country’s peril.“ (and much more), in a speech given to the, American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27, 1961.
QJAR6 TIL that there's a Jupiter-like planet named HAT-P-7b where it rains rubies and sapphires. It is located 1,000 light-years from Earth.
WklX TIL Aquafina and Dasani are nothing more than tap water.