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TIL that there is a true heavy metal band, weighing about 1 1/2 tons, consisting of only robots. The guitar player has 78 fingers

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A8vB TIL Arctos is the Greek word for bear, meaning the Grizzly Bear’s scientific name (Ursus arctos) literally translates as “Bear Bear”, the Arctic Ocean is the “Bear Ocean”, and Antarctica is “The Land with no Bears”.
8aoX4 TIL Daniel Day-Lewis, who has won more “Best Actor” Oscars than anyone else, retired from acting in 2017.
jNAkn TIL that North Dakota has the least amount of McDonalds in the US with only 29 locations statewide.
Rdm8 TIL that Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus (a Pulitzer Prize winning anthropomorphic comic about Nazi concentration camps) also created the Garbage Pail Kids.
kO8e1 TIL in the year 2000 a new type of ant was found in the Amazon. It was so unlike anything previously recorded that it was not only recognized as a new species, it also became the sole member of a new genus, AND subfamily.