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TIL about the ‘mad hatterpillar’, which wears its discarded heads on its body every time it outgrows its exoskeleton

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E7eW TIL the parody national anthem of Kazakhstan from Borat was accidentally downloaded and played for a Kazakh gold medalist in shooting
ew8g TIL Earth’s rotation is slowing at a rate of approximately 17 milliseconds a century, and the length of a day for the dinosaurs was closer to 22 hours.
dDVvr TIL Former US President Andrew Jackson's parrot was kicked out of his funeral for swearing.
QJvOL TIL of the "subliminal message trial". The band Judas Priest were involved in a civil action that alleged they were responsible for the 1985 suicides of two young men
mxyXO TIL over 84,000 scrolls were found behind a wall in the Sakya Monastery in 2003. They were untouched for hundreds of years.