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TIL that Grover from Sesame Street was originally dark green, not blue. He was also first voiced and operated by Frank Oz of Star Wars fame.

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rRkAx TIL Spiders can sense electrical currents in the air and use them to launch themselves upward, traveling up to hundreds of miles. Occasionally a “mass ballooning” occurs, where so many spiders descend from the sky it looks like snow
NNP8 TIL that the inspiration for Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s character in the Disney film Moana, Maui, a demigod in Polynesian culture, according to Maori Legend, died after he was crushed by the obsidian teeth of another god’s vagina while in the form of a worm, trying to win immortality for humans.
xZ80 TIL The blinking light atop the Capital Records Building spells out the word “Hollywood” in Morse code, and has done so since the building’s opening in 1956.
xVVeb TIL the FDA inspects or samples less than 1 percent of all regulated products seeking entry into the United States.
VMPAB TIL in the 1880s Lamar Thompson was so disgusted that saloons and brothels were tempting Americans into “vices” and hated the "sinful" behavior of fellow humans who engaged in sex, drinking and going out for “fun” that he invented the roller coaster to distract people from sinning.