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TIL that Armadillos give birth to four identical quadruplets every time!

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x9j7 TIL there was a proposed LEGO Shaun of the Dead scene, including The Winchester pub from the film, that received the required amount of supporters on their website but was ultimately scrapped.
9JlB TIL that three bodies were found in a storage room on the USS West Virginia when she was re-floated after Pearl Harbor. A calendar kept by the men indicated that they had survived for over two weeks after the attack. [Repost]
OGAJg TIL: During a very cold winter in the Little Ice Age (1658), the Swedish army under Charles X Gustav successfully marched across ice temporarily connecting the larger Danish islands including a 19 km crossing of the Storebælt (Great Belt).
JPRm TIL that Sir Tim Berners-Lee – the inventor of the World Wide Web – randomly selected the colour blue for hyperlinks.
ADOda TIL Donnie Darko was filmed in 28 days which, coincidentally, virtually matches the time that transpired in the film. The movie took place between October 2nd, 1988 to the weekend party scene before Halloween on October 31st, 1988.