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TIL that red pandas are more closely related to seals and walruses than to actual pandas.

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D1xkr TIL Shakespeare coined or popularized many of the phrases we use today. Some of these include: “Good riddance. In my heart of hearts. Laughing stock. Wild-goose chase. Devil incarnate. Brave new world. As luck would have it. All our yesterdays. Break the ice. Full circle.”
7rM8X Today I learned about the existence of krokodil, a homemade Russian heroin substitute that causes you to literally rot away until you die.
WjKB TIL that “spaghetti” is actually the plural form of the word. An individual strand is referred to as a “spaghetto”
QNN8E TIL Dr Seuss studied English at the University of Oxford, with a plan to eventually become a professor there but dropped out when he realized drawing was his only passion. He moved back to the US to become a cartoonist
MemlV TIL that Pitcairn Island, one of the most remote islands in the world, is populated by 50 people, and you can visit!