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TIL Sloths "Scissor" when they have sex

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LQRAd TIL that ABBA premiered their hit ballad ‘Chiquitita’ during a UNICEF event in 1979. Since this concert, ABBA have donated to UNICEF the royalties from the track, widely recognised as one of ABBA’s biggest hits, it helped to raise more than 5 milion USD.
j6nvp TIL there was a breed of dog called the Turnspit dog whose only job was to turn spits of meat by running in a large hamster wheel. As the job became obsolete, Turnspit dogs became extinct.
0jbM TIL an LA woman hid her lover in the attic for several years without her husband knowing
mj8p TIL for over 18 years a Japanese composer pretended to be deaf and paid a ghostwriter to compose his music. Time magazine called him a “digital-age Beethoven”.
a89kZ TIL Fairy Shrimp are a species that lives in ephemeral pools of rainwater, and completes its lifecycle by laying eggs by the time those pools dry up. Its eggs then wait until the next time that pool fills, even years or decades, and the cycle repeats