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TIL that "Dora the Explorer" is a pun on the Spanish word for explorer: "exploradora"

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4Jka TIL A Swedish study found that heart attacks were more common the first three weekdays after the spring transition into Daylight Savings Time
woxe6 TIL Cardinal Bernard Francis Law was named Archpriest in Rome by John Paul II two years after he resigned for covering up the molestation of hundreds of children in Boston over decades
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VMmx8 TIL that bumblebees have the most Latin name - BOMBUS and certain subgenus name is even more bombastic - MEGABOMBUS