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TIL Malabar Giant Squirrels are real and very colorful!

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M71gV TIL the world's oldest terrarium / sealed bottle ecosystem has been thriving since 1960. The 10-gallon bottle is like a mini Earth. It has only been opened once in 53 years to add a bit more water (in 1972). Otherwise it has been sealed without fresh water or air.
8Xaa TIL: More than one study has found that chronic (long-term) whiplash tends not to exist in countries where there’s no expectation of compensation for it.
OGkd7 TIL that Willie Nelson was married to Martha Matthew. The marriage was marked by violence, as Matthews assaulted Nelson on several occasions. On one occasion, she sewed him up in bedsheets and beat him with a broomstick.
PY00Z TIL Charlie Cox (actor of Daredevil) didn't make eye contact during casting for a lead role (Han Solo) as he wasn't used to it from playing a blind man for 2 years. He thinks that this may have cost him the role.
OROY TIL that all the contributors of the psuedoscientifc AIDS denial magazine ‘Continuum’ died of clinical conditions caused by AIDS