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TIL Mark Hamill followed up Star Wars with a weird comedy called Corvette Summer. He plays a high school student who befriends a sex worker and joins a crime ring while hitchhiking to Las Vegas to recover a stolen Corvete. It's essentially the Dude, Where's My Car of the 70s

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ne6KB TIL collecting toad sperm is easy; many release it in urine. Scoop 'em up and they urinate/ejaculate in fear. But what if they don't? According to Diane Barber of Fort Worth Zoo: "It's kind of weird, but if you hold them in your hand and look at them and bark at them like a dog, then they will pee".
5VLDk TIL a 2023 study examined the cognitive ability scores of nearly 400,000 Americans between 2006-2018 and found that over that 13-year period, Americans' IQ scores had dropped in three out of the four cognitive domains included in the analysis.
rRwvd TIL that Paul McCartney, as a vegetarian and animal rights activist, only agreed to appear on The Simpsons if Lisa's decision to become a vegetarian in that episode was made permanent. He is literally the only reason Lisa is still a vegetarian.
b9dgQ TIL that Confederate soldiers could not be buried in national cemeteries, nor were they afforded any benefits from the United States Government. When the reburial corps in the late 1860s found remains on battlefields, they'd remove the Union soldiers and leave the Confederates.
RGn4 TIL that the US exports to Antarctica are worth 6.51 Million dollars and imports are worth 168 thousand dollars.