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TIL Steven Spielberg helped create the PG-13 film rating

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WkxM8 TIL hyenas are not dogs or canines. In fact, they are feliforms, genetically more closely related to cats than dogs, and their resemblance to canines in appearance and behavior is convergent evolution.
9X4D TIL if you are missing a Lego brick or its broken.. Lego will send it to you no questions asked for FREE
wL9p7 TIL that 31% of India's population is vegetarian, by far the highest rate in the world. India has more vegetarians than the rest of the world put together.
BOxW TIL of UCSC grad student Jim Kent who wrote a program to allow the Human Genome Project to assemble and publish the genome. The research was largely motivated by concerns that Celera Genomics, working on a parallel project, would patent the data. Kent’s results were released first by 3 days.
4XX0w TIL During the Little Ice Age, the Thames River would freeze over so severely during the winter months, Londoners would come together and have celebratory fairs (open markets) on the ice, the first recorded in 1608.