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TIL Baby porcupines are called porcupettes!

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nWjOG TIL Catherine O'Hara's yell of "KEVIN!" in Home Alone happened because she forgot the actual line, "We left Kevin home alone!"
1xXr TIL that in 1985 Phil Collins first performed at the Live Aid concert at Wembley (UK), 5 hours later he joined the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia (US) at the same local time as in London, thanks to the Concorde.
DQm1j TIL that in 1841, Richard Beard opened England's first professional photography studio, pioneering the commercialization of photography by securing exclusive rights to the daguerreotype process in England and Wales
VWQZ TIL That men were more likely than women to be upset by sexual infidelity and less likely to be upset by emotional infidelity.