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TIL Mice are not simply female rats. They are different animals entirely

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GYxjQ TIL that weddings that cost more than $20,000 were found to be correlated with a higher rate of divorce than less expensive weddings.
D1Laj TIL: Mt. Olive pickle company is based in a town called Mt. Olive and the street is One Cucumber Blvd, at the intersection of Cucumber and Vine.
pYWob TIL the hats worn by American new wave band Devo were influenced by the German Bauhaus movement, geometric fashion, and Aztec temples. The band members especially liked that, "we kind of looked like Lego toys."
QNVy9 TIL when the University of Minnesota commissioned a local artist to create its mascot (the Golden Gophers), the man they picked had never seen a gopher before. His design was based on chipmunks.
yQJoX TIL that the probability of having a doppelganger (non-biologically related look-alike or double of a living person) is only one in a trillion, or almost zero. This makes it highly unlikely for any person to actually have a doppelganger, according to this University of Adelaide research.