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TIL that Earth, Wind & Fire parodied their own song “September” and called it “December”.

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XEkYR TIL that if you were to jump off the tallest cliff in the Solar System, Verona Rupes on Uranus’s moon Miranda, you would fall for 12 minutes before hitting the ground a good 20 kilometers below.
ANRKa TIL Amanita phalloides (also known as death cap) is the most poisonous of all known mushrooms. It is estimated that as little as half a mushroom contains enough toxin to kill an adult human. It is also the deadliest mushroom worldwide, responsible for 90% of mushroom-related fatalities every year.
p8VNZ TIL Biomarkers in human sperm have been identified that can indicate a tendency to father children with autism spectrum disorder
JAem TIL that a man spent several years acting as the mate of a female whooping crane - sleeping, dancing, and building nests with her - as part of an effort to save the species from extinction. And it worked!
xVAnk TIL the California Institute of Abnormalarts has an embalmed corpse of a 100-year-old dead French clown, preserved under glass in full makeup. “They’re pre-1925 human remains, so we don’t need a permit,”