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TIL A concerned Californian citizen, Gary Wesley, has been writing dissents to CA state propositions since 1978 simply because, “Somebody’s got to do it.”

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PYgNL TIL the Chernobyl radiation disaster was not reported, and covered-up in Ukaraine after its meltdown. It was initially reported in Sweden, 1100 km away, after a powerful plant employee passed a radiation monitor and set off alerts for high radiation exposure.
PpkL TIL Matt Groening named the Simpsons family after his father Homer, mother Marge, and sister Lisa. Bart was an anagram of the word brat.
NXMAN TIL Alberta, Canada is one of only 3 places on Earth considered rat-free. There is no resident population of rats.
Ood7L TIL while filming a 170 foot waterfall in the movie Apocalypto, a cow was trying to cross upstream and went over the falls. It emerged at bottom, banging against the rocks, but after a local man swam in to calm the cow it then climbed up the bank and began eating grass as if nothing had happened.
Me5GB TIL Prairie dog language is complex. They don’t just have a call for “danger”: their calls differentiate human, hawk, domesticated dog, coyote etc. and specify size & color. One study found that they can communicate “Here comes the short human in the yellow” (vs the tall human in blue) to each other