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TIL Seth MacFarlane was only 24 when he started Family Guy, becoming television’s youngest Executive Producer.

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8BOG TIL that turkeys do something called a “shock gobble” where they automatically have to belt out a gobble to any loud sound, whether it’s another turkey or a car door slamming, to sound like they’re the biggest critter around. TIL that turkeys are stupid.
7ZlO TIL Lake Natron is so alkaline that any animals that die in it are turned into calcified statues
loXJ7 TIL Commercial lobstermen make a v-notch in the tail flippers of egg-bearing female lobsters they encounter while fishing as a means to identify and protect a known breeder in the population from harvest.
yVd8M TIL that in 1934 a board game called Toward Soviet America was the opposite of Monopoly. The goal was to get rid of the rich and powerful, end oppression, and seize the means of production. The game did not catch on.
N75ye TIL of the Jesus Nut. It's the part of the helicopter that if it is damaged, or otherwise disengages, you get to meet Jesus.