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TIL … that fake poop has been a favored espionage tool.

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XERB6 TIL avocados evolved to be eaten whole by four ton giant sloths
M74D7 TIL: The attack on the Philippines Dec. 8 was larger in scale than Pearl Harbor but nobody remembers it. In the Philippines, then a U.S. territory, the attackers laid waste to the largest concentration of US warplanes outside North America—the foundation of the Allies’ Pacific air defense.
XE9R6 TIL the combined wealth in the world is $360 trillion.
b4lE TIL that whales can have up to 14 extra spleens. These extra spleens help oxygenate the blood of deeper diving whales.
GYj4j TIL that when the creators of 'Airplane!' cast Lee Bryant to play the "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" woman, they were unaware she starred in the original coffee ad her lines were parodying