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TIL It's Carl Sagan Day. He was a popular scientist and astronomer who was born November 9, 1934.

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gYv8 TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the tank he drove during military service
E1vKx TIL that there is a subspecies of mosquitoes that has adapted to life in the London Underground by neither requiring water to lay its eggs nor hibernating in winter months
yVvx8 TIL in 2000, Pope John Paul II gave his blessing to the Pokémon franchise, saying the games did not have "any harmful moral side effects" and were based on "ties of intense friendship".
vPEvr TIL IIt takes about a month for sloths to digest their food.
jNRBv TIL over the course of its 20 years on Nickelodeon, The Fairly OddParents has been cancelled five times