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TIL a woodchuck doesn't chuck wood, it chucks dirt. A woodchuck chucks 700 pounds of dirt. What the dirt-to-wood ratio is, I don't know.

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E1jOV TIL that turkeys will attack or attempt to dominate humans they view as subordinate
neNVW TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson sent James Cameron a snarky email saying that, at that time of year, in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen.
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