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wGbM TIL That President Kennedy promised to “end housing discrimination with a stroke of the pen” when he got in to office; when he didn’t do so, Civil Rights groups sent thousands of pens to the White House in protest.
4a9o TIL That perceiving time faster or slower than what it is is known as the Kappa Effect.
M7YvK TIL Charles Darwin's tortoise lived to be 175, and was owned By Steve Irwin when she died - two and a half months before Irwin's own tragic death
KYOga TIL that the caterpillar forms of Bag Moths (aka Bagworm Moths use their silk to tie sticks into portable "log cabins" that they live inside of until they become moths
46xa TIL Sidney Sheinberg wanted to change the title of Back To The Future to ‘Spaceman From Pluto’. Robert Zemeckis, horrified, asked Steven Spielberg for help, so Spielberg wrote Sheinberg a memo convincing him that they thought his title was just a joke, embarrassing him into dropping the name change.