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TIL Goodfellas and My Blue Heaven are about both about the same mobster - Henry Hill.

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PYP0G TIL that Thailand offered to send elephants to the USA during the civil war. Lincoln declined on the basis that steam engines would make the elephants more trouble than they were worth, but was extremely grateful and deferential in his reply nonetheless.
jgRE TIL the Azara’s owl monkey is an “unusually faithful” species. Through 18 years of research and testing, they have been found to be both socially monogamous as well as genetically. 35 offspring born to 17 pairs showed zero cheating for both sexes!
GA1Wj TIL that there is a continuous line of doctoral advisor-advisee relationships going back from the present to the 1200s to a scholar named Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn Yūnus. He has more than 190,000 known academic "descendants", including Leonardo da Vinci and mathematicians Fourier, Lagrange, and Hilbert.
KlOQ TIL there is a picture of earth taken from Saturn 6,000,000,000 km away.
yjba TIL that in 2012 Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a law making it okay to use deadly force against any public servants, including cops, who unlawfully enter your residence