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TIL nut theft is a thing amongst squirrels. To avoid it, squirrels will create false nut caches to trick the thieves.

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5YVG9 TIL that Jemaine Clement, who starred in the show "Flight of the Conchords" and voiced Tamatoa in "Moana", actually voiced and sang "Goodbye Moonmen" as Fart in "Rick and Morty."
e0jA6 TIL that William Shatner starred in a horror film written entirely in the international constructed language Esperanto
neW17 TIL that In 2008, Iran tried to make the world's largest sandwich, a 1,500 metre long ostrich and chicken combo. The record attempt failed because spectators started eating the sandwich before officials could take a measurement.
4k4Ob TIL Walt received a custom-made Oscar statuette for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Honorary Award consisted of one standard Oscar statuette, standing above seven other miniature ones- representing each of the dwarf- placed on a stepped, 20-inch-long base.
epDnn TIL about Margaret Ives Abbott the first woman to win a medal in the modern Olympics, and also part of the only mother-daughter pair to compete in one Olympics. Margaret won at golf, her mother, Mary, came in seventh. Coinciding with the Paris Exposition, many were unaware they were in the Olympics.