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TIL the number of days Phil (Bill Murray's character) repeated Groundhog Day in the movie was 38, but in actual time it was calculated to be 8 years, 8 months and 16 days.

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9Y61D TIL ornithologist Ted Parker was able to identify over 4,000 bird species by their songs alone. He died in a plane crash at age 40 surveying the Ecuadorian forests.
OoR1e TIL wild wolf packs are actually families. Alpha and beta behaviours were only seen in captivity. The 13 year study of wild wolf packs in Alaska has also shown young adults often return with their own families and reintegrate.
epx4n TIL the Children's Python is a relatively small python species that lives in Australia. It's named after English zoologist John George Children.
RRyw TIL that someone created a mathematical world (similar to Wonderland from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) called the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It’s only open to the public one day a year.
J18J1 TIL almost all Mayo brands (even Duke's) have Soybean Oil as the number one ingredient