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TIL that Ben & Jerry’s created the first chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream

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XVQX TIL that scientists with the University of Rochester have figured out how to manipulate light into moving at what they think to be negative speeds.
Z8gBG TIL that certain snails can sleep for up to 3 years.
j6o7R TIL about the Alipore Central Jail, a prison in Kolkata, India where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It is no longer operational as a jail. The jail site has been now developed into an independence museum in memory of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed here.
MerVV TIL that when "Feed the Birds" was being played at Walt Disney's 100th Birthday celebrations in 2001 by Richard Sherman, a small bird landed on the piano on which he was playing. It was Walt's favourite song and Richard swears that it must have been Walt coming to listen once again.
nWw0G TIL that for Final Fantasy X, the voice acted English dialogue had the match the length of the Japanese dialogue. If the timing didn't match, the game would crash