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TIL That Crayola runs a recycling program for old markers to keep them out of landfills! Markers don’t even have to be Crayola brand and they still pay for shipping!

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wLpdP TIL about Myrtle the Parachicken, a chicken kept by the 10th Battalion Parachute regime on a debate if chickens could fly. She was later killed and buried in battle.
KOMdQ TIL Anatoly Moskvin, a Russian necropolist, was arrested in 2011 for having the mummified remains of 26 young girls in his apartment. His parents, who shared an apartment with him, confused them for large dolls as he had dressed them up and mummified them himself.
mxLXE TIL that the plural of hovercraft is hovercraft
wmE1 TIL: Germans in WWI built their trenches with perfect 90 degree angles to prevent pressure waves from mortars from killing soldiers
D1BvY TIL that in preparation for animating WALL-E, the film's story crew and animation crew would watch a Buster Keaton film and a Charlie Chaplin film every day for almost a year, to be able to convey emotions silently and effectively