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TIL Sloths only poop once per week and lose 1/3 of their body weight in the process

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oBj67 TIL that Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" music video was intended to be Western themed, until Michael who had recently seen The Godfather with director Colin Chilvers decided that it should instead be featured around 1930's Gangsters.
PYGeE TIL the South Pacific island of Niue was named "Savage Island" by Captain James Cook, because the natives he saw were painted in what looked like blood (it was actually hulahula, a native red fe'i banana). That name was used until the original name "Niue", meaning "behold the coconut", regained use
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