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1aNEr TIL the most abundant vertebrate genus in the world is not chickens but probably the bristlemouth fish numbering in maybe quadrillions of members. Basically these tiny fish are everywhere deep in the ocean and even gave strange false bottom readings by sensors of ocean depths when first discovered.
pY1jb TIL that in 1972, a 9th-century Viking poop was found in York, England. It showed Vikings mostly ate meat and bread and had worms in the intestine. The poop is now on display in a museum
N77v8 TIL during a break in filming the Grinch movie, Jim Carrey pulled a prank on tourists on the Universal Studios backlot by running out of the Bates Motel in a dress holding a knife
wL0jP TIL domestic dogs are one of only a few species that can understand that the human gesture of pointing means, "look in the direction my finger is pointing". Other animals, including wolves and other primates, don't understand how it works and will only be interested in your outstretched finger.
P1nVO TIL you can have a negative magnitude earthquake. Magnitude calcs are based on logarithmic scale so a ten-fold drop in amplitude decreases the magnitude by 1. If an amplitude of 20 mm as measured on seismic signal corresponds to a magnitude 2 earthquake then 1000 times less (0.02 mm) is mag -1.