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TIL Giant Pandas are not evolutionary deadends. Humans are just destroying their habitats faster than they can adapt.

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aLLA TIL the metabolic rate of a dormant scorpion can be lower than that of a root vegetable like a carrot or beet.
rRPv4 TIL The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra auditioned ten dogs for a rare performance of Leopold Mozart’s Hunting Horn Symphony, which calls for four hunting horns, off-stage rifle fire and a chorus of barking dogs. The ten hairy finalists were selected from a series of hopeful video submissions
vj6r TIL pig rectum MIGHT be used in some restaurants as calamari. NPR did a blind taste test and could not tell the difference.
16KVd TIL that Elizabeth Taylor was deliberately late to her own funeral
VMlam TIL at the 2:58 mark in Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney say "fucking hell" after making a mistake on the piano. The band decided to keep it in because they thought it was funny.