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TIL that the endangered/threatened listing of marine mammals and (most) fish is managed by the US Secretary of Commerce… 😑

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ZGoo TIL that while filming for his reality show, Ted Nugent was cutting down a tree to create a stump for a show contestant to sit on when he managed to cut his own leg with a chainsaw requiring 40 stiches
vmk7 TIL that in 2015, a CT scan revealed that a 12th century Buddha statue was actually the casing for a mummified human being.
5M8 TIL that a 2400 year old corpse was so well preserved, that the finders reported it to the police as a murder.
E1RLP TIL What Really Happens When You Dream?&Why Do We Dream?
wL9M6 TIL about "lonely negatives". These are words with common prefixes or suffixes such as "dis-", "in-", "un-", "-less" but they don't have positive counterparts such as the words "disgust", "disappoint", "reckless" - they don't have "gust", "appoint", or "reckful" as their opposites.