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TIL the Cookie Monster has a real name. It`s Sid.

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D1vkJ Today I learned that High German is spoken in South Germany and that Low German is spoken in North Germany.
vnxB TIL that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote “California Girls” during his first experience with LSD. He sat in front of a piano and played what are now the first four notes of the song over and over again for about an hour, until the rest of the song suddenly came to him.
b189 TIL the only photos taken at the moment Robert Kennedy was shot were seized by the LAPD, ordered sealed for 20 years, and when finally set to be released were stolen from the car of the courier transporting them
vPyKj TIL that there's a species of bird called the bar-tailed godwit that can fly non-stop for over a week!
b96gj TIL that when echidnas mate the males form long, waddling processions called “love trains" behind a single female.