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TIL Dust in homes is composed of about 20–50% dead skin cells

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Brmvy Today I learned that the running joke of Garry Gergich on the hit television show Parks and Recreation having his name constantly mistaken for Jerry is a reference to how the political term Gerrymandering (pronounced as Jerry-mandering) today mispronounces its intended namesake Gerry ("Gary").
E1WQV TIL about "glacier mice": fuzzy green balls of moss that form on top of glaciers and move like a herd of rodents
VgxG TIL By typing “=lorem()” in Microsoft Word and pressing enter, you can generate several pages of nonsense
0wJVj TIL A sad song, hymn, or poem mourning the death of someone is called a Threnody, e.g. Candle In The Wind, Tears in Heaven, etc.
X0A56 TIL orcas cultural fads. In the 1980s one such fad was wearing dead salmon as hats. It spread to three separate Pacific pods before suddenly going out of style.