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TIL Thomas Jefferson once spent $1400 (in today's dollars) just to ship a stuffed moose to France to prove that America had large animals

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b9roN TIL 17-yr-old Wolf Cukier found a new planet 3 days into a summer NASA internship. From space telescope data, he detected something blocking starlight, which was the shadow from a planet about 6.9 times larger than Earth. He doesn't get to name the planet, but he got a discount on a NASA jacket.
x6PP5 TIL about Skunk cabbage. Thermogenic early spring flowers and smell like rotting meat. Their little hoods trap heat and can be up to 60 degrees (F) warmer than the environs. Bees often use them to get warm during cold mornings.
OVX7 TIL:Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) had his car stolen, the story got national attention and within 48 hours it was returned with a note saying “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
ne1EY TIL that Jason Paige, the singer of the original Pokémon Theme, didn't expect the song to become popular and knew nothing about the franchise when he recorded it. He considers the song to be a relatively minor part of his career, as he has worked with Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, and Frankie Valli.
GA155 TIL that a group of 25 people could maintain their energy balance for 60 days - eating one mammoth, 16 days - eating a deer, but only half a day eating another human.