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TIL Soap Was Once Made of Animal Fat and Wood Ashes

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pY4lb TIL the whole Mars is as cold as the South Pole.
NXVL6 TIL the Wayne Gretzky trade from Edmonton to the LA Kings yielded a "Trade Tree" that lasted 34 years (i.e. the players and draft picks Gretzky was traded for in 1988 spawned their own trades and draft picks over the years, with the final player leaving the NHL before this current season.)
X0ka6 TIL about the Pizzly Bear, a Polar and Grizzly Bear hybrid. This hybrid species isn't sterile and can actually procreate.
rRWEx TIL that the director of The Little Mermaid ,Ron Clements received a letter from a New Jersey State Trooper saying that, after seeing the movie and being driven to tears by it, he called his estranged daughter to reconcile their own relationship, just as Ariel and Triton did.
MmN0 TIL newborn babies can support their own weight for up to two minutes when hanging from a bar. This was discovered by a man named Dr Robinson in the late 1800’s, when he made 60 babies dangle from a walking-stick.