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TIL that a group of owls is called a parliament of owls and a group of lemurs is called a conspiracy of lemurs

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OGJ7g TIL The oldest person in the USA was born in 1909, she lives with her 94-year old daughter and is cared for by her 68-year old granddaughter.
waE TIL the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, who after the comic’s end became a recluse and evaded interviews and fans, revealed new art after a 16 year absence (an oil painting) to support a cartoonist with Parkinson’s.
wLj1W TIL that in 1604 the last recorded Milky Way supernova - visible to the naked eye in daytime - was the incident that catalyzed and laid the foundation for Galileo’s understanding that earth is not the center of the universe.
j6rWv TIL about pigeon vests, made by the bra company Maidenform during WWII, for soldiers to carry pigeons while they jumped out of airplanes.
kJZ7m TIL that Michael Böllner the German actor who played Augustus Gloop in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, became a tax accountant and had no idea how popular the movie was in America until he was invited to a fan convention decades later.