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TIL Every fourth generation of Monarch Butterflies lives 8 times longer than the previous generations and travels 10 times farther during migration.

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vPXkj TIL the Golden Rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, dates back to an Ancient Egyptian poem written between 2040–1650 BCE.
ZBWv TIL about Irena Sendler who (assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members) smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter outside the Ghetto, saving those children from the Holocaust.
BrbNr TIL that all American Flags within Disneyland and Walt Disney World are not regulation American flags. This allows them to not follow US Flag Regulations, like special lighting or half-staff orders. They are all either missing one star or one stripe.
oR99L TIL while composing his 1984 song "When Doves Cry", there was originally was a bass line in the song, but after a conversation with singer Jill Jones, Prince decided that the song was too conventional with it included and omitted the entire bass line.
4XbDb TIL a man was stabbed to death by a chicken wielding a knife while spectating an illegal cockfight in 2011