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TIL Chinchilla fur is so thick and soft that fleas will suffocate if they try to live there

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eVBn TIL in “127 hours”, the camcorder used by James Franco in the film was the actual one Aron Ralston used when he was trapped in Blue John Canyon.
GJaJ TIL the lyrics of the no. 1 singles on the Billboard charts over the past 10 years average at a third-grade reading level.
W0Xo TIL When WR104, a binary star goes supernova, the solar system could be flooded with gamma radiation destroying all life on earth.
J1Nal Til about kermitops, an extinct amphibian named after Kermit the Frog (the Muppets). The name means Kermit's face in ancient Greek.
VXjG TIL the website hampsterdance.com was created in 1998 as a result of a competition between two Canadian sisters to see who could generate the most traffic and is one of the earliest examples of an internet meme.