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TIL Despite being its distinguishing feature in popular media, only 2 out of 21 Armadillo species can actually curl into a ball

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Y7vjG TIL the guy who took pics of Einstein's office right after his death used a bottle of scotch as bribe to get into the room
5eAk TIL Left-handed people are often excluded from studies of how the brain works. This means that the results of those studies may not apply to ~10% of the population.
a9NJ TIL the Japanese population is expected to decline from 128,000,000 to 87,000,000 from 2012 to 2060 a decrease of 30%
PPPV TIL that while the American Government interned 110,000 people of Japanese decent living in America (including American citizens) the 442nd Infantry Regiment (composed of almost entirely of people of Japanese descent) became the most decorated infantry regiment in the history of the US Army.
wLE8J TIL that the mostly-improvised film "Waiting For Guffman" took only 29 days to shoot but over 18 months to edit. The long editing process was due to the fact that over 90 hours of footage was filmed, which needed to be whittled down to 86 minutes.