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TIL that tadpoles can eat rabbit food!

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jNDAQ TIL of William Cantelo, a British inventor born in 1839 who mysteriously disappeared in the 1880s. His sons developed a theory that he had re-emerged under the name "Hiram Maxim", the inventor of the famous Maxim gun. This was due to a striking resemblance and similar occupation.
gp8b TIL that it has been theorised that the Pillars of Creation, made famous by the Hubble Telescope, may no longer exist. They may have been destroyed by a supernova shockwave around 6000 years ago, but the light from this hasn’t reached Earth, so we won’t see it for another 1000 years.
GY09Q TIL About 10,000 years ago all humans had brown eyes.
7j67 TIL that a house remix of the theme song from “The Price is Right” reached #1 on the Billboard dance charts in 2001.
6vmZ TIL Leonard Cohen struggled for years writing the song ‘Hallelujah’, and had to pare down around 80 verses to get his original recorded version. In one writing session he was reduced to sitting in his underwear, bashing his head on the floor.