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TIL 35% of children share their bed with a pet.

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jK9p TIL that Pee-wee Herman began as a raunchy nightclub act/HBO special, before toning it down for children’s television
WkrE4 TIL Mercury is actually closer to Earth than Venus and Mars (mostly). And same applies to the sun and all planets in the Solar System.
6yjm TIL: In the 1500’s, the Iroquois tribes designed quite an elaborate political system. This included a bicameral (two-house) legislature, much like the British Parliament and modern U.S. Congress. Such a complex political arrangement was unknown in Europe at that time.
e0e4D TIL the worst landslide in US history, the 2014 Oso mudslide which killed 43 people, had been predicted by scientists for years but local officials were unable to convince residents to sell their homes and vacate the region.
woAL6 TIL Yellowstone’s famed thermal pools can melt flesh and bone. In 2016, a tourist illegally searching for a swimmable hot spring fell into a portion of the Norris Geyser Basin, where his body was dissolved by the boiling, highly acidic water. His wallet and shoes were all that remained of him.