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TIL that in 1964, Illinois reelected all 177 members of the Illinois House of Representatives. This resulted in a ballot with 236 names and over 500 million individual candidate votes

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xvXk TIL that Bill Murray had no scripted lines in the movie Caddyshack. He improvised everything. “With the Dalai Lama scene, they just sort of tossed me in there – there wasn’t much of anything. I just took it and ran away with it…Improvising about golf was easy for me.”
RN0l TIL American Association of Physical Anthropologists: Human beings are so biologically similar that if we were dogs we’d all be of the same breed.
NX5Mb Today I learned that momma birds don't barf in their babies mouths, but instead have a special pouch called a crop
P17nG TIL that in the early 20th century, Punjabi men who immigrated to California ended up marrying Mexican women due to shared cultural similarities and legal constraints on interracial marriage. This led to a unique Punjabi Mexican American community, where elements of both cultures blended
9YnE7 TIL Aboriginal Australians have extremely intricate, multi-language 'songlines' - ancestor songs which guide/navigate them through extremely vast distances of Australian Terrain