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TIL that the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

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JYMXB TIL During Hurricane Harvey, the National Weather Service had to add two new colors to the rain accumulation map as the old color key topped out at an amount of rain they never before thought would fall.
yQE9e TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.
xNW5 TIL that, despite having sold 40 million records worldwide, Rick Astley abruptly retired from music in 1993, at the age of 27, in order to spend more time with his newborn daughter. He wouldn’t produce any new material for the next 10 years, and it was another 14 before he went back on tour.
N7gNb TIL of the “asshole” experiments: participants were blocked from walking down a narrow hallway by a researcher who called them an “asshole”. Southern men were far more likely to respond aggressively to the insult than Northern men who shrugged it off.
YVEP TIL pandemonium comes from John Milton’s poem Paradise Lost, and is a contraction of pan (all) and demonium (demons).