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TIL after being rejected by ABC, a TV pilot called "Dear Diary" was slightly edited and put into a single theater for a weekend. It went on to win an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

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jNBBE TIL that in the War of the Triple Alliance, Paraguay lost over 90% of it's entire male population. Paraguayan women ended up outnumbering men with ratios of 4:1 or even 20:1 in some regions. As a result, the local catholic church authorized polygamy to rebuild the population
6E7jY TIL the life expectancy of a black garden ant is about 15 years.
7XYx TIL: the first use of “Google” as a verb in pop culture (TV) happened on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2002
Yp4Od TIL about the Zambian space program in the 1960s, which aimed to send a woman (an afronaut) and 2 cats to the moon using a 2x3 metre drum rocket to establish a Christian ministry to the primitive martians