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TIL A wood peckers tongue wraps all the way around its skull
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TIL that Julia Agrippina, who supposedly poisoned her husband, Roman Emperor Claudius, was herself supposedly killed because of an order made by Emperor Nero
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TIL Hula hooping was introduced commercially in 1957 by Wham-O toy company founders. Hula Hoops are not hard to master, but they favor the thin-waisted over the pear-shaped, and women over men
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TIL that the Buddy, the Golden Retriever who starred in ‘Airbud,’ was actually a stray rescued in the Sierra Nevada mountains. In the film, Airbud is also a stray who gets rescued after being abandoned by his owner.
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TIL that in 1990, a man named Iben Browning predicted a massive earthquake would hit New Madrid, Missouri on December 3rd. The prediction sparked a panic. Schools in 5 states closed, and over 200 media outlets sent reporters to the area. Browning had no seismology expertise, and nothing happened.
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TIL that even though Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters and there is no evidence Shakespeare ever visited Italy, the city of Verona has a house that claims to have been Juliet's home. Her balcony was only added to the building after 1905.