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TIL the Python programming language was named after Monty Python

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aK5A TIL A Michigan rock collector found an impressive 93 lb. Petoskey stone in Lake Michigan in 2015, only to have it promptly confiscated by authorities. The stone violated a Michigan law that states no more than 25 pounds of rocks or minerals can be taken from the Great Lakes per year.
Me1N0 TIL Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the feces of predators.
69rpW TIL that one U.S. county alone (San Bernardino) is larger than the states of New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island combined
jN7NQ TIL that former British number 1 tennis star Andy Murray was at Dunblane Primary School on the day of the 1996 Dunblane School Massacre
yvXM TIL since 1970, 143 death row inmates in the United States have been found to be wrongly convicted.