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TIL Robin Williams was a Secret Santa to sick kids and thanked the staff with tears in his eyes

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WkXJ8 TIL the pink fairy armadillo is barely half a foot long, and here is one on video in reduced sunlight foraging around in the sand for roots and grubs on a rural road, and luckily some passersby were able to film it in action. It is native to South America.It mostly active at dawn, dusk, and night.
MKVm TIL that the Dothraki and Valyrian languages in A Game of Thrones are heard by more people than Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic combined.
VlXB TIL American fighter pilot William Bruce “Bill” Overstreet Jr. (April 10, 1921 – December 29, 2013) shot down a German Messerschmitt Bf-109G after chasing it through the arches of the Eiffel Tower.
xvgg TIL that American car seats are illegal to use in most of the rest of the world due to the addition of the chest clip
e0ed6 TIL Dreams are caused by the random firing of neurons in the cerebral cortex during the REM period. The forebrain then creates a story in an attempt to reconcile and make sense of the nonsensical sensory information presented to it.