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TIL Bison are faster than horses!

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ZaPG TIL that Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, is worth $450 million dollars.
YLRA TIL that during 1996 democratic convention Al Gore said, “I would like to demonstrate for you the Al Gore version of the Macarena”, then remained motionless for a few seconds, and eventually asked, “Would you like to see it again?”
j6K4N TIL that the Neoplan Jumbocruiser was an articulated double-decker city coach that was produced between 1975-1992 and is in the Guinness World Records for being the world's largest bus (59 ft long, 13 ft high, and 8 ft 2 in wide) with a capacity for 170 passengers.
l7NV7 TIL: Nearly 7% of American newspaper employees now work at the NYTimes
gMwBX TIL The discovery of tomato plant on Surtsey in 1969 troubled scientists, since the volcanic island had only formed a few years earlier and thus had no life except the scientists who studied it. The mystery was solved when a scientist discovered traces of human feces near the plant: his own poo