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TIL That a baby porcupine is called a porcupette.

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b6MZZ TIL that the Mobro 4000 was a garbage barge that departed New York with 3,000 tons of trash in 1987. It gained national headlines as it traveled the coast looking for a place to unload after being rejected by six states and three countries. It finally unloaded five months later… in Brooklyn.
nZXP TIL there are nearly 20 mg of silver per kg of sewage sludge, making it nearly economically recoverable
OGoEY TIL since our evolution into modern Homo sapiens 200,000 years ago, there has been about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth, while you're one of 7.9 billion that exist today.
p8XJG TIL In 1991 , Sergei Maduev : A Soviet-Era Serial Killer, seduced his prosecutor to smuggle a pistol into the Prison. The prosecutor was later sentened to 7 years in prison after an unsuccesful escape attempt by the hardened criminal but was in-love with him anyways!
OGoWe TIL that in Haitian rural folklore, there are actually two kinds of zombies: the more widely known corporeal zombie, which is missing its spirit, and the "zombie astral," which is missing its body.