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Today I learned there's one degree of separation between Rugrats and Scarface, and her name is Elizabeth Daily

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j6Bbn TIL d'Armond Speers tried to teach his son the Klingon language, used by the Klingons in the Star Trek series, as a first language. The boy answered mostly in English which his mother spoke to him and at the age of 5 stopped answering his father when he spoke Klingon.
PY0AL TIL that more than 6,500 tigers live in China's tiger farms, outnumbering the 3,900 left in the wild
v1Zkr TIL of an newly discovered organism called Lithoredo abatanica that eats stone and excretes sand. It is a shipworm, a group of burrowing animals known for eating woods and related to clams, but so different from known examples that it is both a new species and genus.
KOOy6 TIL In 2016, a 10-year-old Finnish boy was given $10,000 by Facebook for finding an Instagram bug that allowed him to delete other user's comments.
9KQm TIL of a jobless Irish lady who won a lotto jackpot of $46m. She now plans to donate all but $2m to her town and to give local people a chance. She said “I know what it’s like to have nothing …that’s why I’m giving it away - I can’t miss what I never had.”