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TIL that groundhogs and woodchucks are the same thing

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MeNo8 TIL African wild dogs vote on pack decisions, like when to hunt, by sneezing. They do this after making a camp for greeting ceremonies called “social rallies”.
dX77 TIL building a time machine is believed to be scientifically possible but requires building a gigantic particle accelerator in space, stabilizing space-time foam, plucking out a wormhole, enlarging it and connecting it a gravitational field.
JYDGv TIL New Mexico is not named after Mexico. It was named Nuevo México after the Aztec Valley of Mexico by Spanish settlers, more than 250 years before the establishment and naming of the present-day country of Mexico.
d80wd Today I learned that Swingline didn't make red staplers until Mike Judge made them famous in the movie Office Space
69eyw TIL: It's a nematodes world, and we're just living in it. 4 out of 5 animals on the planet are nematodes. For every human being on the planet, there are roughly 56 billion nematodes.