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TIL a gargoyle that doesn’t conceal a drainpipe is called a hunky punk

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grAE4 TIL the first music video ever played on MTV was titled "Video Killed The Radio Star"
YpD8W TIL in 1940, a woman attempted to assassinate Shirley Temple because she believed that Temple had stolen her daughter's soul. Temple was performing on stage as the woman took out a handgun and aimed, but security managed to stop her before she could shoot.
6xKZ TIL…..There is a 3.4 acre indoor Biosphere in Oracle, Arizona that researchers lived in for 2 years and 20 months to see what living on Mars would be like. There are 5 biome areas; a rainforest, ocean, wetlands, savannah grassland, fog desert, and agricultural system. As well as a human habitat.
KO8rw TIL that ducklings have abstract thoughts. Within hours of hatching, these baby birds can learn concepts like “same” or “different” — and they do so faster than human infants
AYgg TIL The earliest known use of the phrase “trick or treat” appeared in a small town in Alberta, Canada in 1927