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TIL that sloths are so slow that algae grows naturally on their fur, helping them camouflage in trees.

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K4xJ TIL: The 90’s POG phase was started in Hawaii from the lids of POG (Passionfruit Orange Guava) juice
ZpRAo TIL Faustino Oro is an Argentine chess player who became the youngest International Master in history at 10 years, 8 months, and 16 days old.
X0x56 TIL that college professors, including those in non-scientific fields such as marketing, the arts, education, or humanities, typically conduct research and publish academic papers in addition to lecturing and teaching classes.
x6O55 TIL that in 1950, the Italian town of Colobraro declared itself “the town of the living dead” after a local curse and started wearing white sheets at night to protect themselves from misfortune.
oB5D8 TIL that the widow of the filmmaker who produced the 1974 film "Gone in 60 Seconds" owns the copyright to any vehicle called "Eleanor." She viciously defends the copyright to this day, even suing Carroll Shelby, and a YouTuber, seizing his project car and requiring him to delete his videos.