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TIL learned that the “Groundhog Day” loop could have lasted upwards to 10,000 years and as little as 10 years according to the Writer and Director Harold Ramis

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eDbk TIL that a chimpanzee Washoe, the first animal to learn American Sign Language, was able to combine the hundreds of signs that she learned into novel combinations that she hadn’t been taught and created herself. She also taught her adopted son some American Sign Language.
788xb TIL that the American Association of Woodturners keep a running list of deaths due to patterning wood with high voltage sparks.
4vP6 TIL Cartman killed his own dad. Scott Tenorman’s dad, Jack Tenorman, was Eric Cartman’s real father.
neG79 TIL of the 228 Incident, when the govt. of Taiwan massacred between 5,000 to 28,000 protestors, an event which was the precursor to the White Terror - a 38 year period of martial law - in which tens of thousands of other Taiwanese went missing, died or were imprisoned.
N77V6 TIL McDonald's Original Grimace Mascot Terrified Kids as a Four-Handed Totem for Gluttony