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TIL Mars Candy recently bought VCA animal clinics in 2017

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68MW TIL In 1988, actor Gary Busey was in a severe motorcycle accident. Busey, not wearing a helmet, was in a coma for 33 days. In 2008, a psychiatrist determined that the accident caused brain damage and that is why he is considered to have an eerie and bizarre persona.
aw6Yy TIL of the kākāpō—a nocturnal, flightless parrot that drags its face along the ground to navigate and has a mating ritual where the male digs a hole in a hill, lays down in it and makes loud noises all night until a female takes interest in him.
nGLB TIL the song “Everything is Awesome” used in “The Lego Movie” as a satirical criticism of mindless corporation-endorsed pop music won over 12 awards and reached the Top 10 in multiple US and UK charts.
ReYQ TIL Due to a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins. One set was raised in rural farm setting, the other in a middle class urban setting
W0oA TIL That there’s a whole demographic of “Homeless” Japanese youth who live and sleep solely in Internet Cafés.