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TIL Punxsutawney Phil (the Groundhog's Day groundhog) lives in a terrarium built into the children's section of the local public library

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oRRXK TIL that Mummy Brown was a pigment used by European painters that was made from the flesh of Egyptian mummies. It was also common to export mummies from Egypt to Europe to be ground up and used as “medicine”
v1gD TIL Dexter Holland of The Offspring, was the high school valedictorian, received his Master’s in Molecular Biology, and took a 10-day solo flight around the world.
5YkZQ TIL about Escher Sentences, which seem to make sense at first, but actually have no coherent meaning and convey no information. An example is "More people have been to Berlin than I have".
7rOGb TIL: In 1631, a misprint in the King James Bible turned the Seventh Commandment into "Thou shalt commit adultery". Most bibles were burned, but the few that remain have sold for thousands of pounds.
9YdvG TIL about the Antikythera mechanism, an Analogue Computer from 100 BC used to predict astronomical positions for calendars decades in advance.