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TIL that Arkeology is the study of Noah's Ark.

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9wdQ6 TIL in 2001, Mattel made a vibrating Harry Potter broomstick that led to many questionable Amazon user reviews. They discontinued the toy after adult stores in Times Square started selling them for twice their original retail price
wj68 TIL there’s a miniature TV monitor inside the Big Bird costume that gives the puppeteer a third person’s view of himself and his surroundings.
N7xr8 TIL that humans and bananas share about 50% of the same DNA.
MRKK TIL in 2013, a NY Times Reporter discovered that a 1-liter saline IV bag (sterilized salt water) cost $.44 to $1.07 to produce. By the time it was billed to a patient, however, the cost increased between 100% and 1000%.
W7QeN TIL Australia nearly became a republic in a 1999 referendum but was defeated 45/54