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WkyAN TIL A royal footman was once fired from Buckingham Palace for having a "party trick" of pouring alcohol into the royal corgis' food and watching them stagger about.
KYBQG TIL that 2MASS J18082002−5104378 is the oldest star we know of at 13.5 billion years old. It is one generation of stars removed from the Big Bang, and has a companion star that is just as old!
j51p TIL A Finnish food company was forced to rebrand its line of meatballs, as they did not contain enough meat. They are now known simply as ‘balls’.
XEowX TIL that some ants develop as 'undertakers,' carrying dead bodies and waste away from the colony, and exhibit different behavioral patterns than the rest of the colony.
x605w TIL in the US there was an "oyster craze" of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Due to advances in oyster farm technology, between 1880 and 1910, as many as 160 million pounds of oysters were harvested a year, and in 1909 the price per pound fell to less than half of beef.