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TIL when groundhogs peek out on Groundhog Day, they're looking for sex

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78Py7 TIL: American pro wrestling company WCW help a two night event in North Korea with a combined attendance of 360,000.
Z8gPQ TIL about the poem, 'To a Mouse'. Written by Robert Burns in 1785, it is dedicated as an apology to a "mousie" whose nest he had turned over whilst ploughing a field, conveying his guilt at its happening.
w48Y TIL that Sir David Attenborough, as controller of BBC Two, commissioned Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
KOOlR TIL of the Chichijima incident, during an air raid in late 1944, nine Americans were shot down by the Japanese, 8 of the men were captured, tortured, executed, and five cannibalized. The only American to escape capture was future US president George H. W. Bush, then a 20yo airman.
M7yk0 TIL of Esmie Tseng, a top student and pianist, whose parents imposed impossible standards. She once was grounded for a 96% on an exam. When punished, she was forced to stand naked in a corner. In 2005, at 16 yrs old, she snapped, fatally stabbing her mom. She was tried as an adult and served ~6 yrs.