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TIL there are glaciers in tropical Indonesia.

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59GD TIL that although pandas eat bamboo almost exclusively, they actually have the digestive systems of carnivores
QJdO6 TIL the saying "to work up an appetite" originated from back when people would become hungry as the result of physical labor AND THEN consume food. Wow, the more you know! These days, I've just been saying, "Man, I really jerked up the ability to binge-eat an entire carrot cake."
epwJD TIL Tim Sweeney, Epic Games CEO originally wrote 90% of the code for the first Unreal Game Engine and has since used his fortune to protect more than 50,000 acres of forests for conservation purposes
5VPJP TIL Simpsons writer Brent Forrester went to Lollapalooza as research for the episode Homerpalooza. He had a horrible experience which inspired several jokes for the episode: cameras being siezed and thrown in the trash, a freak show, and at one point a stranger asked him, "How's it going, narc?"
VdMB TIL that Penguinone, an organic chemical compound, got its name from the fact that its molecular structure resembles a penguin.