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TIL lemurs get high on millipedes

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R7D5Q TIL of Brandolini's Law which says that bullshit claims require an entire order of magnitude more effort to refute than that which produced them.
NXd48 TIL Flat adverbs, where the adjective and adverb have the same form, used to be much more common in the 18th century until a bunch of grammarians decided adverbs must end in -ly. Examples of surviving flat adverbial usage today include “sit tight” and “go slow”.
4knMa TIL Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was one of only 3 black passengers aboard the Titanic; the other 2 being his young daughters.
ePgk TIL In Don McLean’s “American Pie” they are drinking whiskey in Rye. Don’s favourite bar, The Levee, shut down so they have to drive to the next town over: Rye, New York.
8ar0G TIL there are over 35,000 islands in The Great Lakes of North America.