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TIL there is a Calvin and Hobbes search engine

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wL5oW TIL rumblestrutting is a guinea pig behavior in which they strut around each other shaking their butts low to emit a rumbling sound. It can sound a lot like purring, but it's part of their herd rituals to determine dominance
nWo4d TIL that the 1984 song Careless Whisper by Wham! had been previously produced and recorded in 1983 but George Michael did not like the way the saxophone sounded so he decided to have it re-recorded. The earlier recording is known as "Careless Whisper (Jerry Wexler version)".
Qoa TIL: Lobsters were once considered insects of the sea and couldn’t be fed to prisoners more than once a week because it was considered “cruel punishment”.
E1QXW TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch voiced Dormammu in Doctor Strange. Cumberbatch himself suggested the idea and the director, Scott Derrickson, agreed to it because "[he] wrote that role to be a kind of ultra-inflated version of Strange."
YrEr TIL The reason for the aliens in Indiana Jones 4 was George Lucas. Spielberg didn’t want “aliens or inter-dimensional beings.”