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TIL Panda preservation facilities employ "panda cuddlers" for hugging and playing with them for hours. Pays upwards of $32k

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mxoAx TIL when Ken Mattingly lost his wedding ring during his trip to the Moon, Charlie Duke found it during a spacewalk on the voyage home
wMlE TIL that Cheech Marin beat both Anderson Cooper (Yale graduate) and Aisha Tyler (Dartmouth graduate) at Celebrity Jeopardy.
Oo4eY TIL in the 80s an up and coming comic, Kenny Moore, got arrested immediately following a show for destroying a heckler in the head with a guitar
Y7pmP TIL Aggression can be decreased (and increased!) in participants performing aggression experiments by using non-invasive direct brain stimulation.
VP0Q TIL that the half-penny was discontinued in 1857 when the U.S realized it was worth too little; however, when the half-penny was removed, it had more purchasing power than today’s dime.