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TIL that the scientific name of a llama is, Lama glama.

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BgaPe TIL about Craig Shergold, a former cancer patient who requested greeting cards to try and beat the record for "most greeting cards received". The number stood at 1,000,065. Shergold broke the record and obtained 350 million cards throughout his life until he requested for them to stop.
88vG TIL that Dickens’ secular vision of Christmas resulted in many of the traditions that are employed today, including popularizing the phrase, “Merry Christmas.”
lr65 [TIL] The Sun is so loud that if space was filled with air it would be 125db on Earth, 92 Million miles away
VO5B TIL In Australia, cavities in the ground left by fossils will sometimes fill with a liquid containing dissolved opals. When the liquid evaporates, the opal remains, forming opalised fossils. The best example of this is a 6m long Plesiosaur skeleton, completely made of opal (more sources in comments)
bgX9 TIL that São Paulo, the world’s fourth largest metropolis, banned all outdoor advertising with no ill effect. “The law is now so popular that some companies that were able through legal action to maintain some outdoor presence chose not to, so as not to be seen as flying in the face of [it]”