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TIL baby Foxes are called "Kits"

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W7rZB TIL about Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style event where performance enhancing drugs aren't banned or tested, but actively encouraged.
0voA TIL that dogs align themselves with the earth’s magnetic field when pooping. Raw indicates that dogs not only prefer north-south direction, but at the same time they also avoid east-west direction.
1on8 TIL after the entire national Soviet hockey team was killed in a plane crash in 1950. Stalin’s son Vasily, who managed the team, covered up the disaster and replaced all the players to avoid his Fathers wrath. Stalin never noticed.
7vMX TIL ‘Vexations’ an 18hr long piece of music. After a public performance in New York in 1963 only 6 people remained to the end, one stood up and shouted “Encore!”
5Y98k TIL that in January 2014, seven-year-old Charlotte Benjamin sent a handwritten letter to Lego complaining there were "more Lego boy people and barely any Lego girls". In June 2014, Lego announced a new "Research Institute" collection featuring female scientists which sold out within a week.