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TIL that the Moon is slowing down the Earth's rotation

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M77Va TIL the Irish Guards have had an Irish Wolfhound as a mascot since 1902. The current one is called Seamus
0XM5 TIL Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were enemies. Churchill favored letting Gandhi die if he went on a hunger strike, and during the Bengal famine of 1943 responded to urgent requests to divert food supplies to India with a telegram asking, if food was so scarce, “why Gandhi hadn’t died yet”.
b68GE TIL that Sir John Tenniel, famed Alice illustrator and Punch cartoonist, drew the 1851 Happy Families card game for Jaques of London. Shown at the Great Exhibition, it was a hit. Nearly lost in the Blitz, it survived thanks to designs preserved in the factory's safe.
p8NAQ TIL the arctic woolly bear moth, native to arctic Canada and Greenland, is known for its slow rate of development. Its caterpillar life cycle may extend up to 7 years with molting occurring each spring. While in dormancy, the larvae can withstand temperatures as low as −70 °C.
ADAGl TIL Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the region we now know as North Carolina was ruled by a fearsome, bipedal, 9-foot-long crocodile ancestor known as Carnufex carolinensis, or the “Carolina Butcher.”