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TIL that prairie dogs have one of, if not THE most complicated language in the animal kingdom outside of humans, even describing discusses, size, and color of potential predators.

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N7mG1 TIL "The 1 Second Film" is a film project intending to feature 1 second of animation followed by 1 hour of credits. $1 or above donors to the film's crowdfund received a producer credit, this caused havoc as the IMDb listing reached over 3,000 producers. Ultimately the film was removed from IMDb.
nW5RW TIL that that a religion called "the Coconut Religion" was founded in 1963 in Vietnam that advocated subsisting solely off of coconuts and coconut milk, with a "Coconut Kingdom" on an islet of the Mekong River, and referred to its leader and founder as "His Coconutship".
kO6LB TIL that in the span of only 10 weeks Thornton's Budgens, a supermarket in the UK, was able to create "Plastic-Free Zones" offering over 1,700 products free of plastic packaging.
oBKyR TIL All characters in The Simpsons have four fingers except for God who has five fingers
9YpQp TIL scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfectly preserved in amber. It is full of feathers.