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TIL that California’s official state animal is extinct.

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Wkrg9 TIL about a Horror themed Japanese Anime series called Ghost Stories that was not well received in Japan and when it was dubbed over in English the voice acting cast were given free rein to say whatever they wanted. This led to the entire series becoming a Dark Comedy rather than Horror.
XEb6D TIL Samsung Uses Robots Shaped Like Butts To Bend-Test Its Phones
ANAd4 TIL the man in Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech is Jim Edgerton, the sole dissenter to his town's plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down
wLLm6 TIL Character Actor Crispin Glover made an album called The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be in 1989, with songs about barking clowns, a rap about masturbating, and a Nancy Sinatra cover
l7jBA TIL that despite being ubiquitous throughout the Roman world for centuries and appearing in sculptures and friezes across the empire, we don't know what the Romans called the armor they wore in battle. 16th century scholars gave it the name lorica segmentata.