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TIL that new ponds can be naturally stocked with new fish through birds carrying fish eggs from one pond to another on their feathers or feet.

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VBdEB TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.
D1Xgv TIL the San Diego Zoo has live cams that show their animal enclosures
VM6kk TIL that Sony only released the original Playstation because Nintendo severed their partnership to build a gaming system with a CD drive.
GAXPJ TIL the reason phones have letters over the numbers is because the pre-1968 hubs that calls were routed through could only handle 10,000 subscribers with unique, 5-digit numbers. Cities often needed multiple hubs that were assigned letters to serve as the first 2 digits of the phone number.
b9LO0 TIL a lot of people hate Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory for being lazy, malicious, and conniving by laying in bed for 20 years while his daughter worked to keep him alive