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TIL that the most brilliantly colored thing found in nature is a bright blue berry, as shiny as a mirror, that contains no pigment at all

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PY9WJ TIL that only 3 of the 15 highest grossing movies from the 1980s haven't been given a sequel, prequel or turned into a franchise. Those movies are E.T, Tootsie, and Rain Man.
xVv5 TIL that a psychologist attempted to raise a chimpanzee named Lucy as a human being. One day, he walked into her room and was shocked to find her masturbating to a copy of Playgirl.
OG5W4 TIL that when Thomas Jefferson was in the White House he kept a flock of sheep on the White House lawn and one of them killed a small child.
LrMZ TIL naturalist Chris Packham said he would “eat the last panda if I could have all the money we have spent on panda conservation put back on the table for me to do more sensible things with.”
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