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TIL that zookeepers show giant pandas panda porn to stimulate them and help them breed.

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awxWJ TIL that Ziggy Marley recorded the theme song "Believe in Yourself" for the children's show Arthur
9YR4Q TIL that in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pitched a mystery story to an author, about a man trapped in a boring life, who dreams of running off with $5 million and starting over. 6 top mystery writers wrote a chapter each, and the book was published, and even turned into a movie in 1936
p89pZ TIL Augustus Caesar is estimated at having a net worth of $4.6 trillion because he “personally owned all of Egypt”
0deGA TIL in October 1995, the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. Seed potatoes were grown in space using technology called quantum tubers developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, combining with China’s agricultural techniques.
xVeKw TIL of "Spaceship Earth." The 175 ton, $1 million statue whose artist said it would stand for 1,000 years. It collapsed 3 months later.