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TIL Fish do not have a 3 second memory - They can be taught to evade a trap and will remember how to do so a year later

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9wJ9G TIL in 2020, the movie Palm Springs broke the record for the highest sale of a film from the Sundance Festival by exactly $0.69
awod9 TIL Count von Count (from Sesame Street) has a form of OCD (Arithmomania) in regards to counting.
eWen TIL one of the torture methods used in gulags was putting the prisoner in a dark box filled with thousands of bedbugs.
oBwrW TIL Sylvester H. Roper invented what may have been the first motorcycle. He died when he fell off his invention while racing riders on normal bicycles. The cause of death was found to be heart failure, although it is unknown if the crash was the cause of it, or if his heart failed before the crash.
dDXwj TIL that the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the NASA affiliated research center is located in the same building as Tom's Diner, the diner in the show "Seinfeld" as well as the inspiration of the famous song of the same name by Suzanne Vega