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TIL: Hedgehogs have noisy sex known as “Igelkarussell” in Germany, which led to many noise complaints from German residents keeping them up at night.

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P5KZ TIL there’s a 19 year old who has a plan to clean up half of the pacific garbage patch in 10 years - it would remove over 77,000 tons of plastic from the ocean
OGYD1 TIL that in 1996, Dallas business man John Spano bought controlling ownership of the NHLs New York Islanders for $165 million dollars. After nearly a year it came to light he didn’t have nearly enough funds to complete his purchase of his team.
e0OO6 TIL Jim" Corbett fought Peter Courtney in 6 one-minute rounds at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. This small piece of Round 1 is all that remains and is the oldest surviving footage of a sport being filmed.also making this the first boxing knockout ever filmed
GAyXG TIL: Christopher Reeve wanted to play the Richard Gere role in Pretty Woman but was turned away. The role went to Richard Gere, who had gotten his role in American Gigilo after Christopher Reeve turned it down.
kED5 TIL ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, the most energetic particles known to humans, all come from the same region of the universe and are caused by an physical process of unknown origin. The most powerful cosmic ray ever recorded carried energy of 300 billion billion eV.