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TIL Researchers have found that if you leave a running wheel out in the wild, wild mice will choose to run on the wheel for their own enjoyment

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Z8dX4 TIL that Robert De Niro stalked his own autograph hunters and even agreed to meet one of his long-term stalkers to prepare for his role as an obsessive fan in The King of Comedy
QNM8a TIL: Of all the European royal crowns, only the British one actually sits on the head of a monarch. All other European monarchs, including even the Pope in his political capacity, have civil inaugurations rather than coronations.
oBK8L TIL that when a heiress disappeared in New York City, her parents didn’t report her missing because they were worried about the negativity it would bring the family. She was never found.
9YGo6 TIL Oregon has designated an official state microbe — brewer’s yeast
16pNV TIL Take Our Daughters To Work Day started nationally in 1993 to provide girls an opportunity to see real world role models. The program expanded focus to include sons in 2003.