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TIL the name of the Syrian hamster roughly translates to “mister saddlebags” in the local Arabic dialect due to the amount of storage space in their cheek pouches.

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DQvQg TIL A judge ordered nude photos taken of Ann Wilson of Heart by Annie Leibovitz to be placed in a security box needing 2 keys, one held by Annie and the other by Ann.
KGwB TIL There is a study where pictures were put on shelves in hospitals and they could only be seen from the ceiling to find out if people with out-of-body experiences really was out of their bodies. If so they could tell afterward what was on the pictures.
k8r7 TIL the short poem of “Three blind mice, see how they run” is just a small bit of a longer poem storying the lives of 3 mice who go on an adventure, become homeless, starving, get blinded, go crazy, get their tails chopped off and eventually live happily ever after.
5YeGB TIL That the new £5 note that was recently created can play vinyl records when you press the corner into the groves of the vinyl.
0dg41 TIL That Woody Harrelsons father was a hitman who was responsible for killing a federal judge. This judge was also the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century. The previous was in 1867.