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TIL A scene in Lilo and Stitch had to be changed because of 9/11

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neRKY TIL the surname "Esposito" and its variants comes from children who were abandoned ("exposed") in Italy (before the XVII century, when the law forbade it). Every person with that surname today descends from an exposed child that kept the surname the orphanage once gave them.
jXjQ TIL:of Pando a grove of 47,000 or so trees that is genetically identical and all the trees share a single root system.
bbl4 TIL that a Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, a Medieval Persian scholar, put forward the basic theory of evolution 600 years before Darwin was born
GApWJ Today I Learned: Unique Species Of Ant Found Only In New York City
xVZA5 TIL scientists believe, that just like elephants and Woolly mammoths, that rhinos had a "Woolly" counterpart as well