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TIL that part of the reason it is so hard to get Pandas to mate is that the female Panda is only “in the mood” for a short period in the spring; their sexual interest lasts just 24-72 hours per year.

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R70Nw TIL that the name of the city Des Moines may originate from an insult. According to one source, settlers asked the natives the name of a nearby, rival tribe, and were told it was Moingoana,which they shortened to Moines. In fact, Moingoana means "poopy-face".
W79r8 TIL That Grace Hopper, one of the very first women to ever work on a computer, came-up with the idea of using regular, English words to program a computer, due to her post-WWII experience trying to sell computers to the general public.
M7NOm TIL that before modern digital cameras that record images as digital files, there were still video cameras using the same technology as VHS camcorders that took photos formatted as single NTSC/PAL video frames on floppy disks
LQEpv TIL that Al Pacino was coached by boxer Roberto Duran, in helping him portray the character Tony Montana for Scarface.
B79b TIL that there is an Austrian town formerly called Fucking that changed its name to Fugging because English speakers kept prank-calling the town. Now there are two towns called Fugging.