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TIL Morgan Freeman is against Black History Month

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YpPPd TIL while assisting displaced Vietnamese refuge seekers, actress Tippi Hedren's fingernails intrigued the women. She flew in her personal manicurist & recruited experts to teach them nail care. 80% of nail technicians in California are now Vietnamese—many descendants of the women Hedren helped
4kOLN TIL the world record for “most children delivered at a single birth to survive” is 9 babies, known as nonuplets.
4w9X TIL 19th century biologist Sir John Lubbock experimented on ants by getting them drunk. He discovered that sober ants would carry their drunken ant comrades back to their nest, if they were from the same colony but they would throw drunk strangers into the ditch.
yVO4p TIL that in ancient times, the carob seed was used to measure the worth of gems and gold since the seeds have a general uniform weight. This is where the word "karat" comes from.
R50yQ TILstars have been found nearly halfway to Andromeda Galaxy more than 1 million light-years away from us. For comparison Milky Way’s thin disk is about 100,000 light-years across and Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away.