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TIL A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life.

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6Jpm TIL that New Zealand’s two main islands (the North Island and the South Island) didn’t have official names until 2009
QDE6 TIL that in Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit the children hard during the dodgeball scene. The quick cuts weren’t to make it look like he was throwing hard, it was because the children were crying afterwards. Sandler’s pitch for the idea? “Hurting kids is funny.”
Z8awQ TIL that one of the current top US Tennis players is named Tennys, and is from Tennessee.
D18kv TIL in 2014 the National Science Foundation surveyed 2,200 people in the United States and found that 25% of them think the sun orbits around the Earth and not the other way around.
aoDZ TIL One third of vegetarians eat meat when they’re drunk, according to UK survey. UK Vegetarians who admitted eating in descending order: Kebabs, beef burgers, bacon, fried chicken, and pork sausages.