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TIL there is a Colombian species of Frog called Allobates Niputidea or in english, Allobates Not a Fucking Clue. This is because when discovered, the team had no idea of how to classify it.

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epnlE TIL the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in April 1989 that would delay the end of PDT in presidential election years until after the election. Never signed into law, Pacific-New was inserted into many west coast Unix systems and they failed to make the conversion to PST on 1992 Oct 25.
KYLL6 TIL The dog that portrayed Spuds MacKenzie was a female bull terrier named Honey Tree Evil Eye.
kJ5Mm TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first men to dissect Human and Animal corpses to study Anatomy and Nervous System.
BraaW TIL that Ella Slack is the stand-in for Queen Elizabeth II and takes her place for rehearsals of ‘televised engagements’. However, she’s not allowed to sit on the throne and has to ‘hover’ if she’s required to help frame certain shots.
jEBa TIL that you need to “prove” you’re gay to the Turkish military by showing “photographic evidence”, basically showing a picture of yourself having sex as the “bottom”, because being “top” doesn’t necessarily mean you’re gay