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TIL that ancient sloth could be as large as an elephant

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BMOD TIL in their 1983 film “Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life,” the Pythons defined the meaning of life as “Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
4XKmo TIL that as the chair of the RNC, George HW Bush asked Richard Nixon to resign.
9xkp TIL more rain falls on a Saturday than any other day, thanks to a seven-day dust cycle caused by traffic and industrial activity during the working week. Since Nature doesn’t generally follow 7 day patterns, they’re a human invention.
0l7j TIL that the monkey noise used in many jungle movies is actually made by the kookaburra, an Australian bird
g07b TIL that after Whitehead and Russell proved that 1+1=2 in Principia Mathematica, they commented that it was “occasionally useful”