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TIL Sea Otters have the densest fur of any mammal in the world

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GnYG TIL ‘Skyhook,’ used to capture Lau in The Dark Knight, was real.
JY8vQ TIL There are pencils which once they're too small to use can be planted and will grow into herbs, vegetables or flowers like basil or sunflowers.
9YLbB TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who saved the world from possible nuclear annihilation by breaking protocol, when on October 5th 1960, the BMEWS site in Thule, Greenland falsely detected a level 5 ICBM attack due to the rising moon.
Y7gDP TIL Red Dwarf stars live for trillions of years, and no Red Dwarf has ever died in the history of the universe.
e0OJJ TIL while recording Trout Mask Replica, Don Van Vliet, AKA Captain Beefheart, asserted total control over the project by putting his band mates “in the barrel” and berating them continually, sometimes for days, until the musician in question collapsed into tears or in total submission to Van Vliet.